 | Francis Bret Harte - 1872 - 442 strani
...which required coolness, impassiveness, and presence of mind, and, in his own language, he " couldn't afford it." As he gazed at his recumbent fellow-exiles,...behind the door and thus addressed him : " Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 strani
...known as ''The Innocent " of Sandy Bar. He had met him some months before over a " little game," aud had, with perfect equanimity, won the entire fortune...behind the door and thus addressed him : " Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1899 - 548 strani
...required coolness, impassiveness, and presence of mind, and, in his own language, he ' ' could n 't afford it. " As he gazed at his recumbent fellow-exiles,...addressed him: "Tommy, you 're a good little man, but you can 't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed him his money back, pushed him... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 646 strani
...and other acts characteristic of his studiously neat habits, and for a moment forgot his annoyimce. The thought of deserting his weaker and more pitiable...behind the door and thus addressed him : " Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1900 - 430 strani
...slowly ascended the trail. In the fresh, open face of the newcomer Mr. Oakhurst recognised Tom Sirnson, otherwise known as " The Innocent," of Sandy Bar....behind the door and thus addressed him : " Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 254 strani
...game," and had, with perfect equanimity, won the entire fortune—amounting to some forty dollars—of that guileless youth. After the game was finished, Mr. Oakhurst drew the youthful 25 speculator behind the door and thus addressed him: " Tommy, you 're a good little man, but you can't... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1904 - 358 strani
...whicK required coolness, impassiveness, and presence of mind, and, in his own language, he "couldn't afford it." As he gazed at his recumbent fellow-exiles,...speculator behind the door and thus addressed him : "Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lionel Strachey - 1904 - 204 strani
...horseman slowly ascended the trail. In the fresh, open face of the newcomer, Mr. Oakhurst recognised Tom Simson, otherwise known as "The Innocent," of...speculator behind the door, and thus addressed him: "Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - 270 strani
...open face of the new-comer Mr. Oakhurst recognized Tom Simson, otherwise known as " The Inno20 cent " of Sandy Bar. He had met him some months before over...game was finished, Mr. Oakhurst drew the youthful 25 speculator behind the door and thus addressed him : " Tommy, you 're a good little man, but you... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1910 - 688 strani
...which required coolness, impassiveness, and presence of mind, and, in his own language, he "couldn't afford it." As he gazed at his recumbent fellow-exiles,...speculator behind the door and thus addressed him: "Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again." He then handed... | |
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He then handed him his money back, pushed him gently from the room, and so made a devoted slave of Tom Simson. There was a remembrance of this in his boyish and enthusiastic greeting of Mr. Oakhurst. He had started... 
