Excerpt from The Sack of Monte Carlo an Adventure of to-Day
As for the morality of the affair, I confess that never in the least troubled me - never once. One puts morality on one side when dealing with a gaming-establishment, and to raid the place seemed to me just as reasonable and fair as to go there with a system, besides being likely to be a good deal more profitable. And since the objects to which we destined the money were in the main charitable, I soon came to regard the expedition strictly in pics usus (as lawyers say.
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