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XI. page 40
His love of play was desperate. A few evenings before he moved
the repeal of the Marriage Act, in February, 1772, he had been at
Brompton on two errands,--one to consult Justice Fielding on the
penal laws, the other to borrow L10,000, which he brought to
town at the hazard of being robbed. He played admirably both at
Whist and Piquet,--with such skill, indeed, that by the general
admission of Brookes' Club, he might have made four thousand
pounds a-year, as they calculated, at these games, if he could
have confined himself to them. But his misfortune arose from
playing games of chance, particularly at Faro.
After eating and drinking plentifully, he would sit down at
the Faro table, and invariably rose a loser. Once, indeed, and
once only, he won about eight thousand pounds in the course of a
single evening. Part of the money he paid to his creditors, and
the remainder he lost almost immediately.
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