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Updated: May 31, 2025
The game excited much interest; the crowd gathered round the table; bets ran high; the vanity of Legard, as well as his interest, was implicated in the conflict. It was soon evident that the Frenchman played as well as the Englishman. The stakes, at first tolerably high, were doubled. Legard betted freely.
And then we began to drink about, and then I betted he would not drink out a quartern of Hollands without drawing breath, and then he tried it, and just then Slounging Jock and Dick Spur'em came in, and we clinked the darbies on him, took him as quiet as a lamb; and now he's had his bit sleep out, and is as fresh as a May gowan, to answer what your honour likes to speir. This narrative, delivered with a wonderful quantity of gesture and grimace, received at the conclusion the thanks and praises which the narrator expected.
'My uncle knows that a thirty pound cheque of his, in your name, was paid by you to a notorious gamester. Guy did not shrink, as he simply answered 'It is true. 'Yet you have neither played, nor betted, nor done anything that could come under the definition of gambling? 'No. 'Then why this payment? 'I cannot explain that.
More and more the Countess and the ladies were friendly and affectionate with him. More and more Mr. Will betted with him, and wanted to sell him bargains. Harry's simple dress and equipage only served to confirm his friends' idea of his wealth. To see a young man of his rank and means with but one servant, and without horses or a carriage of his own what modesty!
"There is a surgeon there who would bleed him, if he were allowed." "Who could prevent him?" "That's the curious part of it. Two men have betted on his death or recovery. One says, 'I'll bet twenty guineas he dies, and the other says, 'Done. Number one will not allow the surgeon to bleed him, for if the man recovered his twenty guineas would be gone." "Poor man! what pitiless betters!"
They betted away the week at billiards or whist or picquet or loo, and sometimes measured swords for diversion, tho' this pastime the bailiff was greatly set against; as calculated to deprive him of a lodger. Although we had no money for gaming, and little for wine or tobacco, the captain and I were received very heartily into the fraternity.
He betted there would be something about it in the Wrykyn Patriot tomorrow. He shouldn't wonder if somebody had been killed. What were they scrapping about? How should he know!
Then the croupier deals the cards out slowly and solemnly one after another, calling out their names as they fall, until he comes say to a king; when those who have betted on the king have their stakes doubled, and the others lose theirs. The banker has a great advantage to compensate him for his expense and risk.
He was in a Decline, and was a shadow to look at. Him and Compeyson had been in a bad thing with a rich lady some years afore, and they'd made a pot of money by it; but Compeyson betted and gamed, and he'd have run through the king's taxes. "I might a took warning by Arthur, but I didn't; and I won't pretend I was partick'ler for where 'ud be the good on it, dear boy and comrade?
But there was no need to fear; for I was naturally endowed with a very clear sense of self-preservation; I neither betted nor drank, nor contracted debts, nor a secret marriage; from a worldly point of view, I was a model young man indeed; and when I returned home about four in the morning, I watched the pale moon setting, and repeating some verses of Shelley, I thought how I should go to Paris when I was of age, and study painting.
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