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XII. page 54
A RECLAIMED GAMBLER'S ACCOUNT OF HIS CAREER.
`Some years since I was lieutenant in a regiment, which the alarm
and policy of administration occasioned to be quartered in the
vicinity of the metropolis, where I was for the first time. A
young nobleman of very distinguished family undertook to be my
conductor. Alas! to what scenes did he introduce me! To places
of debauchery and dens of destruction. I need not detail
particulars. From the lures of the courtesan we went to an
adjoining gaming room. Though I thought my knowledge of
cards superior to those I saw play that night, I touched no card
nor dice. From this my conductor, a brother officer, and myself
adjourned to Pall Mall. We returned to our lodgings about six
o'clock in the morning.
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