out-drinking

Updated: June 25, 2025

There was that convivial old fox, Wilkinson, who had plotted for years with Miro and did not sell himself and his country to Spain because as we now say "he found he could do better;" who modestly confessed himself in a traitor's letter to the Spanish king as a man "whose head may err, but whose heart cannot deceive!" and who brought Governor Gayoso to an early death-bed by simply out-drinking him.

George Washington Cable - The Grandissimes