However, Sir Jacob, we shall see what can be done for thee," and with that he dismissed me.
That same night the secretary of my Lord Clarendon came to me, and announced with much form and show that, in consideration of my long devotion and the losses which I had sustained, the King was graciously pleased to make me a lottery cavalier.' 'And pray, sir, what is a lottery cavalier ?' I asked.
'It is nothing else than a licensed keeper of a gambling-house.

This was his reward to me.

I was to be allowed to have a den in the piazza of Covent Garden, and there to decoy the young sparks of the town and fleece them at ombre.

To restore my own fortunes I was to ruin others.
My honour, my family, my reputation, they were all to weigh for nothing so long as I had the means of bubbling a few fools out of their guineas.' 'I have heard that some of the lottery cavaliers did well,' remarked Saxon reflectively.
'Well or ill, it way no employment for me.

I waited upon the King and implored that his bounty would take another form.