The gambling spirit inborn in mankind--Its various forms in reality identical--Resemblance of gamblers to the alchemists of old--Capriciousness of fortune--Importance of small advantages at play--An extraordinary run at hazard--Napoleon and Wellington little addicted to cards--Blücher's love of gaming--He wins his son's money--Avaricious gamesters--Anecdotes of the miser Elwes--Long sittings at the card-table--Modern instance in London--Two nights and a day at whist at the Roxburgh Club--Casanova's forty-two hour duel at piquet--Anecdotes of Fox, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir John Lade, Beau Nash, and others--Country houses lost at play--"Up now deuce and then a trey"--The Canterbury barber 1 …
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