"Really, this is frightful."
"Stop a minute; you don't know all yet. I should make an excellent gambler if I were not too hotheaded; but I was hot-headed, just as if I had been drinking. Well, I was not hot-headed then—"
"Well, but what else could you play for? You had nothing left?"
"Oh, yes, my friend; there was still that diamond left which sparkles on your finger, and which I had observed yesterday."