"Talk about punting on the Stock Exchange! There are precious few punters on the Stock Exchange who pick up fifty thousand pounds and walk off with it at a single coup."
"And, also, there are very few punters on the Stock Exchange who would run the risk of getting penal servitude for life for doing it."
"Yes, there's that to be considered."
"As you say, there's that to be considered."
"Do you think they'd make it penal servitude for life?"
"I think it extremely probable, with your past history and mine."
"Suppose it came to penal servitude for life, what then?"
"Exactly! That is the question to be asked--'What then?'"
"The Countess of Ferndale's jewels! lying on the table in front of me! and in my time I've run the risk of being sent to prison for a pocket-handkerchief."
"But in that case you did not run the risk, my friend, of penal servitude for life, eh?'