rtunes would be changed entirely. Yes, my nature is
my weak point. I have only to remember what happened to me some months
ago at Roulettenberg, before my final ruin. What a notable instance
that was of my capacity for resolution! On the occasion in question I
had lost everything--everything; yet, just as I was leaving the Casino,
I heard another gulden give a rattle in my pocket! "Perhaps I shall
need it for a meal," I thought to myself; but a hundred paces further
on, I changed my mind, and returned. That gulden I staked upon
manque--and there is something in the feeling that, though one is
alone, and in a foreign land, and far from one's own home and friends,
and ignorant of whence one's next meal is to come, one is nevertheless
staking one's very last coin! Well, I won the stake, and in twenty
minutes had left the Casino with a hundred and seventy gulden in my
pocket! That is a fact, and it shows what a last remaining gulden can
do.... But what if my heart had failed me, or I had shrunk from
making up my mind? ...

No: tomorrow all shall be ended!

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