The book Rambling Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune was written by author W H William Hamilton Maxwell Here you can read free online of Rambling Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Rambling Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune a good or bad book?
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IT was in a saloon of the Palais Royal that I first met Arthur Mac Dermott. The night was wild, tempestuous, and disagreeable the wind howled, and so did the dogs the rain splashed, and so did the passengers I was heart-sick of Paris tired of sights abominated theatres discovered that my valet was a rogue, and my mistress a roue had been jockeyed in the morning, and jilted in the afternoon and not 138 RAMBLING RECOLLECTIONS. knowing how else to kill a dreary hour, as a last resource, dropped in...to hell itself. Every body plays Rouge et Noir, had they but the honesty to acknowledge it ; and there- fore, every body knows the locale of the table, and the character of the company. On this night there was the usual family party, with some legs and some soft ones. A few small merchants were peddling cautiously, and the only dashing player had just been regularly done up. " May the curse of Cromwell attend you, red and black !" ejaculated a tragi-comic voice, which issued from the moustached lips of a strapping Emeralder.
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