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The Gaming Table-Vol.2-Part6_Andrew Steinmetz(1816-1877)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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Many fine intellects among players have been brutified by loses;

others, in greater number, have been so by their winnings. Some



in the course of their prosperityperish from idleness, get

deranged, and ruin themselves after ruining others. An instance



is mentioned of an officer who won so enormously that he actually

lost his senses in counting his gains. Astonished at himself, he



thought he was no longer an ordinary mortal; and required his

valets to do him extraordinary honours, flinging handfuls of gold



to them. The same night, however, he returned to the gaming

house, and recovered from his madness when he had lost not only



all his gains, but even the value of an appointment which he

held.



UNFORTUNATE WINNING.

M. G--me was a most estimable man, combining in himself the best



qualities of both heart and head. He was good-humoured, witty,

and benevolent. With these qualifications, and one other which



seldom operates to a man's disadvantage--a clear income of three

thousand a year--the best society in Paris was open to him. He



had been a visitor in that capital about a month, when he

received an invitation to one of the splendid dinners given



weekly at the salon. As he never played, he hesitated about the

propriety of accepting it, but on the assurance that it would not



be expected of him to play; and, moreover, as he might not again

have so good an opportunity of visiting an establishment of the



kind, he resolved to go--merely for the satisfaction of his

curiosity. He had a few stray napoleons in his purse, to throw



them--'just for the good of the house,' as he considered it--

could hardly be called PLAY, so he threw them. Poor fellow! He



left off a winner of fourteen hundred napoleons, or about as many

pounds sterling--and so easily won! He went again, again, and



again; but he was not always a winner; and within fifteen months

of the moment when his hand first grasped the dice-box he was



lying dead in a jail!

LORD WORTHALL'S DESPERATE WAGER.



At a gambling party Lord Worthall had lost all his money, and in

a fit of excitement staked his whole estate against L1000, at



cutting low with cards, and in cutting exclaimed,--

'Up now Deuce, or else a Trey,



Or Worthall's gone for ever and aye.'

He had the luck to cut the deuce of diamonds; and to commemorate



the serious event, he got the deuce of diamonds cut in marble and

had it fixed on the parapet of his mansion.



THE CELEBRATED THADDEUS STEVENS.

He was an inveterate gamester on a small scale, and almost



invariably, after a day's duty in the House, would drop in at a

favourite casino, and win or lose fifty dollars--that being the



average limit of his betting.

A PROVIDENT GAMBLER.



A Monsieur B--, well known in Parisian life, having recently lost

every shilling at a certain sporting club where play is carried



on in Paris, went to the country, where his sister lent him L150.

He won all back again, and got a considerable sum of money in



hand. He then went to his hotel, to his bootmaker, and tailor,

paid them, and made arrangements to be fed, clothed, and shod for



ten years.

A MAGNIFICENT FORTUNE WASTED.



Lord Foley, who died in 1793, entered upon the turf with an

estate of L18,000 per annum, and L100,000 ready money. He left



with a ruined constitution, an encumbered estate, and not a

shilling of ready money!



AN ENTERPRISING CLERK.

Lord Kenyon, in 1795, tried a clerk 'for misapplying his master's



confidence,' and the facts were as follows. He went with a bank

note of L1000 to a gaming house in Osendon Street, where he won a



little. He also won two hundred guineas at another in Suffolk

Street. He next accompanied some keepers of a third house to



their tables, where he lost above nine hundred pounds. He played

there almost every night; and finally lost about L2500!



GAMBLING FOR RECRUITS FOR THE ARMY.




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