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The Gaming Table by Andrew Steinmetz

 CHAPTER XII. page 59

`Soothed by the magic influence of my virtuous Harriet,
instead of calling the croupier to account, I wrote to the
proprietors of the bank, stating my ruined condition, and my
readiness to sell my commission and pay them what I could. These
gentlemen have friends in every department. They completed the
transfer of my lieutenancy in two days, and then, in their
superabundant humanity, offered me the place of croupier in an
inferior house which they kept near Hanover Square. This offer I
declined; and after having paid my tradesman's bill, I left
London with only eleven guineas in my pocket. I married the best
of women, my preserver, and have ever since lived in real comfort
and happiness, on an income less than one hundred pounds a year.'

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