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CHAPTER
XI. page 16
The Duke of B---- loved play to distraction. One night,
chagrined at a heavy loss, he pressed Nash to tie him up from
deep play in future. The beau accordingly gave his Grace one
hundred guineas on condition to receive ten thousand whenever he
lost that amount at one sitting. The duke soon lost eight
thousand at Hazard, and was going to throw for three thousand
more, when Nash caught the dice-box, and entreated the peer to
reflect on the penalty if he lost. The duke desisted for that
time; but ere long, losing considerably at Newmarket, he
willingly paid the penalty.
When the Earl of T---- was a youth he was passionately fond
of play. Nash undertook to cure him. Conscious of his superior
skill, he engaged the earl in single play. His lordship lost his
estate, equipage, everything! Our generous gamester returned
all, only stipulating for the payment of L5000 whenever he
might think proper to demand it. Some time after his lordship's
death, Nash's affairs being on the wane, he demanded it of his
heirs, _WHO PAID IT WITHOUT HESITATION_.
Nash one day complained of his ill luck to the Earl of
Chesterfield, adding that he had lost L500 the last night.
The earl replied, `I don't wonder at your _LOSING_ money, Nash,
but all the world is surprised where you get it to lose.'
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