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Pagina 95
... palace , and danced a minuet there with the Hof - marshal's lovely daughter , and lost a few pieces to his excellency the first hunt - master of his Highness . At our table at the inn there was a Prussian [ 95 ] BARRY LYNDON , ESQ .
... palace , and danced a minuet there with the Hof - marshal's lovely daughter , and lost a few pieces to his excellency the first hunt - master of his Highness . At our table at the inn there was a Prussian [ 95 ] BARRY LYNDON , ESQ .
Pagina 163
... highness's bags do not contain more than eighty thousand , we will meet you . " And we did , and after eleven hours ' play , in which our bank was at one time reduced to two hundred and three ducats , we won seventeen thousand florins ...
... highness's bags do not contain more than eighty thousand , we will meet you . " And we did , and after eleven hours ' play , in which our bank was at one time reduced to two hundred and three ducats , we won seventeen thousand florins ...
Pagina 165
... highness had won and accepted our bills . Sometimes , too , we were hit very hard . A bank is a certainty , almost ; but now and then a bad day will come ; and men who have the courage of good fortune , at least , ought to meet bad luck ...
... highness had won and accepted our bills . Sometimes , too , we were hit very hard . A bank is a certainty , almost ; but now and then a bad day will come ; and men who have the courage of good fortune , at least , ought to meet bad luck ...
Pagina 170
... highness's dominions were small , and so he wisely lived in a sort of awful retirement from them , seldom showing his face in his capital , or seeing any countenances but those of his faithful domestics and officers . His palace and ...
... highness's dominions were small , and so he wisely lived in a sort of awful retirement from them , seldom showing his face in his capital , or seeing any countenances but those of his faithful domestics and officers . His palace and ...
Pagina 172
... highness the duke was a widower , or rather since the death of the reigning duchess , had contracted a morganatic marriage with a lady whom he had ennobled , and who considered it a compliment ( such was the morality of those days ) to ...
... highness the duke was a widower , or rather since the death of the reigning duchess , had contracted a morganatic marriage with a lady whom he had ennobled , and who considered it a compliment ( such was the morality of those days ) to ...
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