money-bowls

Updated: June 29, 2025

We can see them, those silent rascals, sitting there with their cards and their rouleaux and their wooden money-bowls, long after the dawn had crept up St. James's and pressed its haggard face against the window of the little club. Yes, we can raise their ghosts and, more, we can see many where a devotion to hazard fully as meek as theirs. In England there has been a wonderful revival of cards.

Sir Max Beerbohm - The Works of Max Beerbohm