Lucretia B
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For some months and perhaps for years, they will linger in the more polite and elegant circle of gamesters.
But after a while, their pathway will come to the fatal plunge.
Finding themselves in the rapids, they will try to back out and hurled over the brink, they will clutch the side of the boat.
Until their fingernails, blood-tipped, will pierce the wood, and then with white cheek and agonized stare, and the horrors of the lost soul lifting the very hair from the scalp, they will plunge down where no grappling hooks can drag them out.
Young man, stand back.
From all styles of gambling, the end thereof is death.
The gamblers enter the ten pin alley where are husbands, brothers, and fathers.
Put down your thousand dollars, all in gold eagles, let the boy set up the pins at the other end of the alley.
Now stand back and give the gamester full sweep.
Roll the first, there it strikes, and down goes his respectability.
Try it again, roll the second, there it strikes, and down goes the last feeling of humanity.
Try it again, roll the third, there it strikes, and down goes his soul forever.
It was not so much the pins that fell as the soul, the soul, fatal ten strike for eternity.
Shall I sketch the history of the gambler?
Lured by bad company, he finds his way into a place where honest men ought never to go.
He sits down to his first game only for pastime, and the desire of being thought sociable.
The players deal out the cards.
They unconsciously play into the
into Satan's hands, who takes all the tricks and both the players' souls for trumps, he being a sharper at any game.
A slight stake is put up just to add interest to the play.
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