Excerpt from The Gamblers: A Story of to-Day The dismal, mournful cry, taken up in succession in different funereal keys by each professional croaker, was singularly depressing and disturb ing. Purposely indistinct and incoherent, the vag abonds' jargon was so unintelligible that it was impossible to guess the nature of the extraordinary news which occasioned so much ado, but there was no mistaking in their melancholy tones the sombre accents of disaster. Like a dreadful, long-drawn out human wail, it told of sudden ...
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Excerpt from The Gamblers: A Story of to-Day The dismal, mournful cry, taken up in succession in different funereal keys by each professional croaker, was singularly depressing and disturb ing. Purposely indistinct and incoherent, the vag abonds' jargon was so unintelligible that it was impossible to guess the nature of the extraordinary news which occasioned so much ado, but there was no mistaking in their melancholy tones the sombre accents of disaster. Like a dreadful, long-drawn out human wail, it told of sudden calamity, some unexpected and dire catastrophe. The promena ders on the Avenue, instantly seized by an uneasy, uncontrollable feeling of apprehension and inse entity, stopped and listened, straining ears to make sense out of the discordant sounds. Pauper and plutocrat, all for the nonce were on an equal foot ing. Danger of some sort threatened. Men looked anxious; women nervous. A bank in trouble? It might be their depositary! Immediately filled with misgivings, they pictured the worst. Perhaps every dollar they possessed in the world was gone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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