Title | : | The Touchstone of Fortune |
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Author | : | Charles Major |
Release | : | 1912-01-01 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Historical Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature |
Size | : | 227881 |
Goddess Fortune seems to delight in smiling on a man who risks his all, including life, perhaps, on a desperate chance of, say one to one hundred. If her Ladyship frowns and he loses, his friends call him a fool; if he wins, they say he is a lucky devil and are pleased to share his prosperity if he happens to be of a giving disposition. Lucky? No! He has simply minted his courage. |