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Anecdotes Of The Passions And Vicissitudes Of Gamesters

A Mr R--y, son of a baronet, left Wattier's club one night with
only L4 in his pocket, saying that he would look in at the hells.

He did so, and, returning after three o'clock in the morning,
offered to bet L500 that he had above L4000. The result proved
that he had L4300, all won at gaming tables, from the small
beginning of L4. He then sat down to play games of skill at
Wattier's, and went home at six o'clock without a single pound!
The same man subsequently won L30,000, and afterwards lost it
all, with L15,000 more, and then 'went to the Continent.'

A major of the Rifle Brigade, in consequence of gambling in
London, by which he lost vast sums of money, went out of his
senses and died a few years ago in an asylum. This occurred
within the last ten or twelve years.

Says Mr Seymour Harcourt, in his 'Gaming Calendar,' 'I have
myself seen hanging in chains a man whom, a short time before, I
saw at a Hazard table!'

Hogarth lent his tremendous power to the portrayal of the ruined
gamester, and shows it to the life in his print of the gaming
house in the 'Rake's Progress.'

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