| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 16 | 1037 | "Could it be?" View more quotes about asked">asked the player. |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 16 | 1034 | "Perhaps the great Temenides, who holds a high board in Cos, fears to enter into a banquet's friendly game, or, say, an evening's casual tourney, with one who is a mere mountebank, a monster," suggested the player. |
| 16 | 1035 | There was laughter at this suggestion. |
| 16 | 1036 | Temenides turned red. |
| 16 | 1037 | "Could it be?" asked the player. |
| 16 | 1038 | "I do not play bumpkins," said Temenides. |
| 16 | 1039 | "I, on the other hand," said the player, "am obviously willing to do so". |
| 16 | 1040 | This remark brought a roar of laughter from the crowd. |