** ***; if it be the first, the associate says,; I give him eight days to guess it.'
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz
I knew the result of the examination would give Gilbert great pleasure, so I gave him every detail about it.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton
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