Chapter

1 1|     that a special costume is needed for a gambler. ~The evident
2 1|    thin and colorless that it needed a close inspection to find
3 2|       money to risk. Oh, if I needed to send you to sleep, I
4 2| everything else about her. It needed an observation as keen as
5 2|  given me fresh courage. I so needed to believe in myself and
6 2|      her eyes sparkled. ~" 'I needed it badly,' I said as I sat
7 2|    Another sort of courage is needed to write that sort of thing.' ~" '
8 2|    important transaction that needed his presence. The scholar
9 3|    treatment are imperatively needed. In the first place, a carefully