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"The best plan will be for them not to run," said another, "so that neither the thin man break down under the weight, nor the fat one strip himself of his flesh; let half the wager be spent in wine, and let's take these gentlemen to the tavern where there's the best, and 'over me be the cloak when it rains."
Of the curate I say nothing; but I will wager he has some spice of the poet in him, and no doubt Master Nicholas too, for all barbers, or most of them, are guitar players and stringers of verses.
"When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," said he."I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of him, that man would not have given me such complete information as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a wager.
I would lay any wager it is about Miss Williams.
I would lay a wager he has stolen it."
I wager that I uttered a thousand extravagances."
"Gentlemen," said Athos, "a wager!""Ah, wooi, a vager!" cried the Swiss.
"Now for the wager!
"Yes, the wager!" said the light-horseman.
As long as they were within the circle of the camp, the four friends did not exchange one word; besides, they were followed by the curious, who, hearing of the wager, were anxious to know how they would come out of it.
We have made a wager--a wager which could not have been foreseen, and of which I defy anyone to divine the true cause.
"Gentlemen," said he, "we have been here an hour, and our wager is won; but we will be fair players.
Live the Guards!"M. de Busigny was the first to come and shake Athos by the hand, and acknowledge that the wager was lost.
"Well, monseigneur," replied the latter, "three Musketeers and a Guardsman laid a wager with Monsieur de Busigny that they would go and breakfast in the bastion St. Gervais; and while breakfasting they held it for two hours against the enemy, and have killed I don’t know how many Rochellais."
"I shall bring Crab Wilson with me, and finally arrange the conditions of our little wager."
I believe I have that right within the terms of our wager."
The hubbub of the betting had risen until it drowned all other sounds, men shouting their opinions from one side of the coach-house to the other, and waving their hands to attract attention, or as a sign that they had accepted a wager.
There was a captain in the Guards who attained considerable social success by doing it for a small wager.
On the terms of the wager I lose unless I can produce a man, within the prescribed ages, who can beat Crab Wilson.
"Meanwhile, I hold you to the terms of your wager.
"We shall soon see," rejoined the sailor, "but I would wager my head there are no rocks in the channel.
"Should your boasted beauty," said the Templar, "be weighed in the balance and found wanting, you know our wager?"
But the wager of battle is complete, even according to the fantastic fashions of Norman chivalry--Is it not, Father Aymer?""It is," replied the Prior; "and the blessed relic and rich chain will I bestow safely in the treasury of our convent, until the decision of this warlike challenge."
"And how if I refuse to shoot on such a wager?" said the yeoman.--"Your
Failing of which, we do pronounce to you, that we hold ye as robbers and traitors, and will wager our bodies against ye in battle, siege, or otherwise, and do our utmost to your annoyance and destruction.
But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible."
"Well, Mr. Fogg," said he, "it shall be so: I will wager the four thousand on it."
"When I say I'll wager," returned Stuart, "I mean it."
"A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager," replied Phileas Fogg, solemnly.
A memorandum of the wager was at once drawn up and signed by the six parties, during which Phileas Fogg preserved a stoical composure.
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