Darkness

"It usually happened that luck accompanied him in all his affairs; but in these last three days the circumstances turned out to be extremely unfavorable, even hostile. Like a person whose whole short life had resembled one huge, dangerous, wildly азартна game, he knew these sudden changes of fortune and could reckon with them—because the stake in the game was nothing less than life itself, his own and someone else’s, and that alone had accustomed him to attentiveness, quick thinking, and a cold, firm calculation…"