The Bet

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