She did not perceive that she was talking like her father as the sleek geldings ambled in review before them. she played for very high stakes, and fortune favored her. the fever of the game flamed in her cheeks and eyes, and it got into her blood and into her brain like an intoxicant. people turned their heads to look at her, and more than one lent an attentive ear to her utterances, hoping thereby to secure the elusive but ever-desired "tip." arobin caught the contagion of excitement which drew him to edna like a magnet.