The Gambler

What am I? I am zero—nothing. What shall I be tomorrow? I may be risen from the dead, and have begun life anew. For still, I may discover the man in myself, if only my manhood has not become utterly shattered.

"one cannot arrest a man for brawling until he has brawled.

"I have perpetrated the—the piece of idiocy," I said as I came level with her.
"Have you? Then you can take the consequences,"