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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IDC. THE GATES OF HELL. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.-St. Matthew xvi:18. It is only 10 o'clock, said the officer of the law, as we got into the carriage for the midnight exploration? it is only 10 o'clock, and it is too early to see the places that we wish to see, for the theaters have not yet let out. I said, What do you mean by that ? Well, he said, the places of iniquity arc not in full blast until the people have time to arrive from the theaters. So we loitered on, and the officer told the driver to stop on a street where is one of the costliest and most brilliant gambling-houses in the city of JS'ew York. As we came up in front all seemed dark. The blinds were down; the door was guarded; but after a whispering of the officer with the guard at the door, we were admitted into the hall, and thence into the parlors, around one table finding eight or ten men in mid-life, well-dressed?all the work going on in silence, save the noise of the rattling chips on the gaming-table in one parlor, and the revolving ball of the roulette table in the other parlor. Some of these men, we were told, had served terms in prison; some were ship-wrecked bankers and brokers and money-dealers, and some were going their first rounds of vice?but all intent upon the table, as large or small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh! there was something awfully solemn in the silence?the intense gaze, the suppressed emotion of tha players. Noone looked up. They all had money in the rapids, and I have no donbt some saw, as they sat there, horses and carriages, and houses and lands, and home and family rushing down into the vortex. A man's life would not have been worth a farthing in that presence had he not been accompanied by the police, if he had ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217757201
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217757200
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 245 gr


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