Our invasion must have displeased him because he got off the chairs brusquely and walked out, leaving with me an indelibly weird impression of his thin shanks.

One of the men with me said that the fellow was the most desperate gambler he had ever come across.

I said: "A professional sharper ?" and got for an answer: "He's a terror; but I must say that up to a certain point he will play fair.

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