The Bet
Across
- 4. by reading all of the books, the lawyer says that he has gained this.
- 6. after the tenth year, he read nothing but this
- 8. the second year he could be heard doing this
- 12. he refuses this because it excites the desires and desires are the worst foes of the prisoner.
- 13. the lawyer says in his letter, "You have lost your ___ and taken the wrong path.
- 14. the first year of confinement, the lawyer suffered from this and depression.
- 15. many of the men at the party opposed this
- 17. who says, "To live anyhow is better than not at all."
- 18. when the banker crept into the room, he found a ____ that the lawyer had written laying on the table.
Down
- 1. in the last two years he read an immense____ of books.
- 2. the amount of years that the lawyer was to stay in solitary confinement
- 3. who says, "I'll bet you two million you wouldn't stay in solitary confinement for five years."
- 5. he read a lot of these the first year with complicated love plots
- 7. in the second half of the sixth year, he started studying different ____, philosophy, and history
- 9. he decides to ____ the two million which he once dreamed of and now despises.
- 10. on the morning of the day that the lawyer was to be let out, he had been seen climbing out of
- 11. the lawyer thinks himself to be ____ than everyone else.
- 12. anything that the lawyer wanted, he had to get through this
- 16. window and he___.
- 17. where the lawyer stayed during confinement