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APPENDIX M. 



Newmarket, Moiiday Morning. 



My dear George, — Lord Edward brought me your 

 letter yesterday. I was always afraid of having some 

 bad accounts of you, though Bunbury told me you was 

 higher than ever ; but your bill of play lately has been 

 so very desperate, that half an hour's bad luck was more 

 than sufficient to lose a greater sum than you have lost, 



I should be sorry, indeed, if I thought anything I could 

 have done would have saved you. If you imagine it 

 would, I believe you are mistaken, and then it only would 

 have been an additional mortification. 



The weather has been so very fine, that I have con- 

 tinued here in hopes it would do me good. My intention 

 is to be in town on Wednesday ; to leave Newmarket 

 after the race on Tuesday, and sleep at Hockerel. Think 

 of the cento pensieri ! The having debts to pay does not 

 make the present worse, and in the midst of your mis- 

 fortunes, if you compare yourself to those you meet at 

 Almack's, you are, perhaps, the luckiest man there in 

 point of play. Adieu ! — ^Yours very sincerely, 



M. AND R. 



APPENDIX N. 



Wednesday ituyrning, 6 o'clock. 



My dear George, — I am just preparing to conduct the 

 poor little Tondino to Dover, and as I shall hardly be able 



