# The Gambler: A Novel

Author: Thurston, Katherine Cecil, 1875-1911

Genre: Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33490

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Gambler%3A+A+Novel+Thurston&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon. Yet James Milbanke made neither comment nor objection as mile after mile of roadway spun away like a ribbon behind him, as the mud rose in showers from the wheels of the old-fashioned trap in which he sat, and the half-trained mare between the shafts swerved now to the right, now to the left--her nervous glance caught by the spectral shapes of the blackthorn hedges or the motionless forms of the wayside donkeys, lying asleep in the ditches. Perhaps this stoicism was the outcome of an innate power to endure; perhaps it was a...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/46/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/43/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/42/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/44/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/48/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/45/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/47/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/41/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gambler-a-novel-33490/chapters/2/index.md)