"So you can bet fifty guineas, and afford to lose them?
So much the better for you, cousin.
Those great Virginian estates yield a great revenue, do they ?" "More than sufficient for all of us--for ten times as many as we are now," replied Harry.

("What, he is pumping me," thought the lad.) "And your mother makes her son and heir a handsome allowance ?" "As much as ever I choose to draw, my lord!" cried Harry.
"Peste! I wish I had such a mother!" cried my lord.

"But I have only the advantage of a stepmother, and she draws me.

There is the dinner-bell.
Shall we go into the eating-room ?" And taking his young friend's arm, my lord led him to the apartment where that meal was waiting.
Parson Sampson formed the delight of the entertainment, and amused the ladies with a hundred agreeable stories.

Besides being chaplain to his lordship, he was a preacher in London, at the new chapel in Mayfair, for which my Lady Whittlesea (so well known in the reign of George I.) had left an endowment.