three or four years! In addition to this he was allowed a
supper--which was, in fact, his dinner--at the gaming house,
whither he went every night at about eleven o'clock. Till
supper-time (two o'clock in the morning) he amused himself in
watching the games and calculating the various chances, although
incapable of playing a single coup. At four o'clock he returned
to his lodging, retired to bed, and lay till between nine and ten
o'clock on the following night. A cup of coffee was then brought
to him, and, having dressed himself, at the usual hour he again
proceeded to the salon. This had been his round of life for
several years; and he told me that during all that time
(excepting on a few mornings about Midsummer) he had never beheld
the sun!'

A Mr R--y, son of a baronet, left Wattier's club one night with
only L4 in his pocket, saying that he would look in at the hells.

He did so, and, returning after three o'clock in the morning,
offered to bet L500 that he had above L4000. The result proved
that he had L4300, all won at gaming tables, from the small
beginning of L4. He then sat down to play games of skill at
Wattier's, and went home at six o'clock without a single pound!
The same man subsequently won L30,000, and afterwards lost it
all, with L15,000 more, and then 'went to the Continent.'

A major of the Rifle Brigade, in consequence of gambling in
London, by which he lost vast sums of money, went out of his
senses and died a few years ago in an asylum. This occurred
within the last ten or twelve years.