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CHAPTER
XII. page 19
WHIG MIDDLETON.
Whig Middleton was a tall, handsome, fashionable man, with an
adequate fortune. He one night had a run of ill-luck at
Arthur's, and lost about a thousand guineas. Lord Montford, in
the gaming phrase, asked him what he would do or what he
would not do, to get home? `My lord,' said he, `prescribe your
own terms.'
`Then,' resumed Lord Montford, `dress directly opposite to the
fashion for ten years. Will you agree to it?' Middleton said
that he would, and kept his word. Nay, he died nine years
afterwards so unfashionably that he did not owe a tradesman a
farthing--left some playing debts unliquidated, and his coat and
wig were of the cut of Queen Anne's reign.
Lord Montford is said to have died in a very different but quite
fashionable manner.
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