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The Gambler
Contributor(s): Hogarth, C. J. (Translator), Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (Author)
ISBN: 1545058113     ISBN-13: 9781545058114
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $8.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2017
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- Fiction | Literary
Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.48 lbs) 156 pages
 
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I was assigned a small room on the fourth floor of the hotel (for you must know that I belonged to the General's suite). So far as I could see, the party had already gained some notoriety in the place, which had come to look upon the General as a Russian nobleman of great wealth. Indeed, even before luncheon he charged me, among other things, to get two thousand-franc notes changed for him at the hotel counter, which put us in a position to be thought millionaires at all events for a week Later, I was about to take Mischa and Nadia for a walk when a summons reached me from the staircase that I must attend the General. He began by deigning to inquire of me where I was going to take the children; and as he did so, I could see that he failed to look me in the eyes. He WANTED to do so, but each time was met by me with such a fixed, disrespectful stare that he desisted in confusion. In pompous language, however, which jumbled one sentence into another, and at length grew disconnected, he gave me to understand that I was to lead the children altogether away from the Casino, and out into the park.