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Alea sequa vorax species certissima furti Non contenta bonis, animum quoque perfida mergit; -- Furca, furax -- infamis, iners, furiosa, ruina. Petrarch: Dial.
I dined the next day at the Freres Provencaux; an excellent restaurateur's, by-the-by, where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. After dinner, I strolled into the various gambling houses, with which the Palais Royal abounds.