His next week's allowance, or the next little gift, will set him right again.

But when a grown up person, who is settled in the world, is led on by these fascinating amusements, so as to lose that which would be of importance to his present comfort, but more particularly to the happiness of his future life, the case is materially altered.

The same passions, which harass the one, will harass the other, but the effects will be widely different.

I have been told that persons have been so agitated before the playing of the card, that was to decide their destiny, that large drops of sweat have fallen from their faces, though they were under no bodily exertions.

Now, what must have been the state of their minds, when the card in question proved decisive of their loss?
Reason must unquestionably have fled.