human
I have it, I have done it; oh! I have it as neat as you please!
gpt
What is it that you have, Jean Ficelle?
human
Oh! something that I can use to take greenhorns in.
gpt
Another new game, I'll bet; for you're a very devil of a gambler!
human
Well, why not? Games of chance are tabooed in Paris, but the sharks and blacklegs in good society find a way to play, all the same. They have secret meetings, where they can ruin themselves as nice as you please, on the pretence of having a little dance.
gpt
How do you know?
human
Oh! I know everything. Well, then, why shouldn't the small fry, the less select society, have the same chance? But they go about it more openly. The men who run games of chance set them up in the open air, all ready to cut stakes at sight of a policeman or a detective. You don't know anything about it, you fellows; you are greenhorns. Just listen to me a minute, for your instruction.
gpt
A nice kind of instruction we are likely to get from you, I fancy.
human
But it's always a help, even if it's only to keep you from being taken in by sharpers.--Come, Sans-Cravate, come and sit down with me.