Well, what would you think? Since that first time he used to play with me
every day. He would wait till there was no one about, for of course he
would have been ashamed to play with a mere marker in presence of others.
Once he had got rather warmed up by the play (he already owed me sixty
rubles), and so he says,--
"Do you want to stake all you have won?"
"All right," says I.