SoI played, and lost as usual, I lost^with a de-cent ahow ef equanimity until 1^waa left alone to play with Marvilliers, one^of mv brother officers, who had profited by^my illueaa and got the cross that I imagined^I ought to have, and it was in a small ^flair,
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As1 lost, Marvilliers.who had no reason^| for urumhling, as he always won at cards as^) he did in skirmishes, and whom nature had^endow, d with a gissl te mper and a very^I pleasant laugh, was verv merry, and this^{angered me. 1 felt so bad that whin I^threw down the cards 1 thought to nyaali^that 1 might as well throw thein in his tace.^or give him a goes! slap on Ins insolent^grinning mouth. It was an unreasonable^wish, but I was wrong to resist it. Take my^udviee, nil of you; if yon ever find inclined^to hit a man, do it at once^for if yon do^not. you will be angry all the sumo and^probably bring upon yourself the blow you^i thought ot giving.
