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"Then the secrets of the world are all used up, and there is nothing new to be discovered."

"What do you mean, wise Peter?"

"Be serious if you can; my system has extraordinary advantages, and can be applied with equal s access to any game of chance, be it pitch-and-toss or blind hookey."

"Eureka! That is the correct exclamation, I think. Then we are to have no more flights of uncertain bills, the dread of Monday's settling is about to cease for ever, and I can promise Marie that saddle horse. Permit me, Peter, to congratulate you that you still retain a little of the verdure of your early youth, and believe in something, even if that something is only an infallible system."

"Pooh! so do you, you want to make yourself worse than you are. If anyone dared, for instance, to malign a certain young lady——"

"Stop! what has my confidence in a young lady to do with the question? Young ladies have nothing to do with making money; it is the spending department they know most about. You are endeavouring to shirk the matter, and you are aware that all the arguments in the universe would fail to prove the truth of infallible systems."