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without troubling ourselves very much whether 

 they exist or not ? Nor are we backward in 

 availing ourselves of opportunities wherever 

 they occur. An old traveller once said to me, 

 " I have been all over the world, and wherever 

 I found gambling going on, there were English- 

 men in the thick of it." And perhaps it may 

 be remarked that the chief patrons of this 

 excellent club are English. It is a great boon 

 to many visitors. In the modern sense there 

 is here " nothing to do " — no golf, no motoring 

 (to speak of), no sports of the field ; and the 

 Casino, before and after dinner, is a resource 

 for the resourceless. If people lose their 

 money it is their own affair. Losing has been 

 stated on expert authority to be the next 

 greatest pleasure to winning. Possibly it keeps 

 them out of worse mischief. And the unco' 

 guid who find in the vices, venial or otherwise, 

 of their neighbours an occasion for self-com- 

 placency, are enabled to gird at the iniquities 

 of this sinful establishment ; and so everybody 

 is pleased. 



The game of Roulette is a very fair one to 

 the player. Considering that "the bank" 

 provides the place and means of playing ; that 



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