Trip 4183 of 4900 collection book65
He afterwards made it his business to inquirebook13 into the characters of the two British knights and understood they were notorious sharpers who had come abroad for thebook21 good of their country and now hunted in couple among a French pack that dispersed themselves through the public ordinaries walks and spectacles in order to make a prey of incautious strangers. Fathom found some difficulty in concealing his joy at the mention of this last amusement which had been one of his chief studies and in which he had made such progress that he could calculate all the chances with the utmost exactness and certainty.... read all
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