I went slap at it. If there is anything that
never does any good, it is craning. I did it all at one rush,
just as though I was swallowing a dose of physic. I wish I could
tell you all that the governor said, because it was really tip-
top. What is a fellow to get by playing high,--a fellow like you
and me? I didn't want any of that beast's money. I don't suppose
he had any. But one's dander gets up, and one doesn't like to be
done, and so it goes on. I shall cut that kind of thing
altogether. You should have heard the governor spouting Latin!
And then the way he sat upon Percival, without mentioning the
fellow's name! I do think it mean to set yourself to work to win
money at cards,--and it is awfully mean to lose more than you have
got to pay.
'Then at the end the governor said he'd send the beast a cheque
for the amount. You know his way of finishing up, just like two
fellows fighting,--when one has awfully punished the other he goes
up and shakes hands with him. He did pitch it into me,--not abusing
me, nor even saying a word about the money, which he at once
promised to pay, but laying it on to gambling with a regular cat-
o'-ninetails.
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