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Ernest Maltravers
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CHAPTER III
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I dare not play now.

I love the excitement, but I have been humbled at the debasement: it is a moral drunkenness that is worse than the physical." "You speak warmly." "Because I feel keenly.

I once won of a man I respected, who was poor.
His agony was a dreadful lesson to me.

I went home, and was terrified to think I had felt so much pleasure in the pain of another.

I have never played since that night." "So young and so resolute!" said Valerie, with admiration in her voice and eyes; "you are a strange person.


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