 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 548 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth ; " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said 0. ; " I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won. However, as it is a little necessary to cast about for resources, it is just got abroad, that about... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 480 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth : " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said 0. ; "I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won. However, as it is a little necessary to cast about for resources, it is just got abroad, that about... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 492 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth ; " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said O'B., " I will win ten thousand ; you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did ; and Harvey won. This was magnanimous on both sides. The Cocoa-Tree stood near the site of the present Conservative... | |
 | 1857 - 496 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth ; " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said O'R, " I will win ten thousand ; you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did ; and Harvey won. This was magnanimous on both sides. The Cocoa-Tree stood near the site of the present Conservative... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 562 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth ; " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said 0. ; "I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won. However, as it is a little necessary to cast about for resources, it is just got abroad, that about... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1858 - 562 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth ; " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said 0. ; "I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won. However, as it is a little necessary to cast about for resources, it is just got abroad, that about... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - 1866 - 616 trang
...never pay me ? ' 'I can,' said the youth, ' my estate will sell for the debt.' ' No,' said 0., ' I will win ten thousand, you shall throw for the odd ninety.' They did, and Harvey won." * It afterwards became a club, of which Byron was a member. This gambling seems to have been inseparable... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth : " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said 0. : "I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won." The Cocoa-tree was one of the Clubs to which Lord Byron belonged. Almack's Club. Almack's, the original... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1890 - 362 trang
...never pay me." " I can," said the youth ; " my estate will sell for the debt." " No," said O. ; "I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won. However, as it is a little necessary to cast about for ' Mr. Harvey was afterwards Sir Eliab Harvey,... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 594 trang
...can never pay me." "I can," said the youth, "my estate will sell for the debt." "No," said O. ; "I will win ten thousand — you shall throw for the odd ninety." They did, and Harvey won. — Walpole to Mann (Letters, vol. vii. p. 329) . Lord Byron belonged to the Club in 1812. The Club... | |
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... O'Birne, an Irish gamester, had won one hundred thousand pounds of a young Mr. Harvey ' of Chigwell, just started from a midshipman into an estate by his elder brother's death. O'Birne said, 'You can never pay me.' ' I can,' said the youth ; ' my... 
