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CHAPTER
XI. page 64
TOM DUNCOMBE.
Tom Duncombe graduated and took honours among the greatest
gamblers of the day. Like Fox, he was heir to a good fortune--
ten or twelve thousand a year--the whole of which he managed to
anticipate before he was thirty. `Tom Duncombe ran Charles Fox
close. When Mr Duncombe, sen., of Copgrove, caused his prodigal
son's debts to be estimated with a view to their settlement, they
were found to exceed L135,000;[133] and the hopeful heir went
on adding to them till all possibility of extrication was at an
end. But he spent his money (or other people's money), so long
as he had any, like a gentleman; his heart was open like his
hand; he was generous, cordial, high-spirited; and his
expectations--till they were known to be discounted to the
uttermost farthing--kept up his credit, improved his social
position, and gained friends. "Society" (says his son)
"opened its arms to the possessor of a good name and the
inheritor of a good estate.
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