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Message: <blockquote data-quote="unleashed" data-source="post: 3894407" data-attributes="member: 31408">“I suppose that’s what I get for being honest,” Gabriel says with a chuckle, “though it wasn’t empty flattery, Elise, as you did ask about the things I’ve seen during my travels, which haven’t been overly exciting thus far in my time with the musketeers.”“Well, that might be the way for some, though I certainly prefer the company of ladies to gambling, if there is a choice,” he adds with a grin. “As for the consequences of the game itself, the outcome is much like most other parts of life ... for one to win another must lose. Never is that more evident than when you have sworn to put other lives before your own, like we in the musketeers do. Though it is applicable even for you, my dear Elise, if not in quite so deadly a fashion. Consider for a moment what would happen if you were to marry ... how many men do you think would feel they had lost to your husband? And much like being on the wrong end of a blade, they don’t have the recourse of trying to change the outcome by simply courting you again. While with a friendly game of cards, you can simply play again and perhaps be better off a moment later than you were before.”“That would be some trick indeed, Julie, though I fear if such a thing were possible I would never get anything else done,” Gabriel laughs.“Oh, anything that plays on his shyness around women would do, I think, though I hope you will take into account his naivete and not embarrass him too badly, as it might negate all the progress he’s been making in that regard recently.”</blockquote>

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