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CHAPTER
XI. page 21
His friend the Lord Carlisle, although himself a great gambler,
also gave him good advice. `I hope you have left off Hazard,' he
wrote to Selwyn; `if you are still so foolish, and will play, the
best thing I can wish you is, that you may win and never throw
crabs.[117] You do not put it in the power of chance to
make you them, as we all know; and till the ninth miss is born I
shall not be convinced to the contrary.'
[117] That is, aces, or ace and deuce, twelve, or seven. With
false dice, as will appear in the sequel, it was impossible to
throw any of these numbers, and as the caster always called the
main, he was sure to win, as he could call an impossible number:
those who were in the secret of course always took the odds.
Again:--`As you have played I am happy to hear you have won; but
by this time there may be a triste revers de succes_.'
Selwyn had taken to gaming before his father's death--probably
from his first introduction to the clubs. His stakes were high,
though not extravagantly so, compared with the sums hazarded by
his contemporaries. In 1765 he lost L1000 to Mr Shafto, who
applied for it in the language of an `embarrassed tradesman.'
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