In fact, I rose from the table a rich man." "There can be no foul play at the public tables, especially when foul play would make against the bank ?" This question was put by Glyndon.
"Certainly not," replied the count.

"But our good fortune was, indeed, marvellous,--so extraordinary that a Sicilian (the Sicilians are all ill-bred, bad-tempered fellows) grew angry and insolent.

'Sir,' said he, turning to my new friend, 'you have no business to stand so near to the table.

I do not understand this; you have not acted fairly.' Zanoni replied, with great composure, that he had done nothing against the rules,--that he was very sorry that one man could not win without another man losing; and that he could not act unfairly, even if disposed to do so.

The Sicilian took the stranger's mildness for apprehension, and blustered more loudly.