"Yes, yes; I know that, so soon as you have a few piastres or ounces, the monte table strips you of them immediately."
"Hang it! I have always been unlucky at play."
"For that reason I do not intend asking you for money."
"Very good. If you have no designs on my purse we can easily come to an understanding. You may speak boldly."
"I hope that we shall easily understand one another, the mere so as the service I expect from you is almost a mere nothing."
"Come to the point, Red Cedar: with your deuced way of twining your phrases together in the Indian way, you never make an end of it."
"You know that I have a deadly hatred against Don Miguel Zarate?"
"I have heard some say about it. Did he not lodge his knife somewhere in your chest?"
"Yes, and the blow was so rude that I all but died of it; but, thanks to the devil, I am on my legs again, after remaining three weeks on my back like a cast sheep. I want my revenge."
"I can't help saying you are right: in your place, may Satan twist my neck if I would not do the same!"