I am not a soft-hearted fellow, but I am driven to pity him.

The worst of it is that, had not my father been induced at last to tell the truth, from most dishonest causes, he would not have been a bit better off than he is.

I doubt whether he could have raised another couple of thousand on the day when he went.

If he had done so then, and again more and more, to any amount you choose to think of, it would have been the same with him." "I suppose so." "His lust for gambling was a bottomless quicksand, which no possible amount of winning could ever have satiated.

Let him enter his club with five thousand pounds at his banker's and no misfortune could touch him.
He being such as he is,--or, alas! for aught we know, such as he was,--the escape which the property has had cannot but be regarded as very fortunate.