I take up with other games,--I am forced to do it; but, even at rouge et noir, I carry about with me the rules of whist.

I calculate--I remember." "But hazard ?" "I never play at that," said Saville, solemnly.

"It is the devil's game; it defies skill.

Forsake hazard, and let me teach you ecarte; it is coming into fashion." Saville took great pains with Godolphin; and Godolphin, who was by nature of a contemplative, not hasty mood, was no superficial disciple.
As his biographer, I grieve to confess, that he became, though a punctiliously honest, a wise and fortunate gamester; and thus he eked out betimes the slender profits of a subaltern's pay.
This was the first great deterioration in Percy's mind--a mind which ought to have made him a very different being from what he became, but which no vice, no evil example, could ever entirely pervert..