Excerpt from The Cobra Diamond, Vol. 2 of 3 Fortune's buffets are those of a schoolmaster, but the scholar is sometimes long in learning his lesson. Some receive this with com punction, some with defiance. Monty that night drank a great deal of wine at his club. He then sallied out to see if rubicon picquet would deaden the pangs of remorse and love. He played wildly. Colonel Prospectus was his chief antagonist. He lost and lost, little heeding. At a late hour he found himself in the street. Once or twice he thought he ...
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Excerpt from The Cobra Diamond, Vol. 2 of 3 Fortune's buffets are those of a schoolmaster, but the scholar is sometimes long in learning his lesson. Some receive this with com punction, some with defiance. Monty that night drank a great deal of wine at his club. He then sallied out to see if rubicon picquet would deaden the pangs of remorse and love. He played wildly. Colonel Prospectus was his chief antagonist. He lost and lost, little heeding. At a late hour he found himself in the street. Once or twice he thought he heard steps dogging him. 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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