Well, I'll bet a dinner costing five hundred francs at the Rocher de Cancale that Rabourdin does not get La Billardiere's place.

That will cost you only a hundred francs each, and I'm risking five hundred,--five to one against me! Do you take it up ?" [Shouting into the next room.] "Du Bruel, what say you ?" Phellion [laying down his pen].

"Monsieur, may I ask on what you base that contingent proposal ?--for contingent it is.

But stay, I am wrong to call it a proposal; I should say contract.

A wager constitutes a contract." Fleury.