card-debt

Updated: May 17, 2025

He was Spennie Dreever, the man of blood and iron, the man with whom it were best not to trifle. But it was really, come to think of it, uncommonly lucky that he was engaged to Molly. He recoiled from the idea of attempting, unfortified by that fact, to extract twenty pounds from Sir Thomas for a card-debt. In the hall, he met Saunders. "I have been looking for your lordship," said the butler.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Intrusion of Jimmy