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 gülden in my pocket! That is a fact, and it shows what a last remaining gülden 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!