The Gaming Table, Vol. 2 of 2: Its Votaries and Victims, in All Times and Countries, Especially in England and in France (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The income of Chevaliers d industrie is at first derived from those inexperienced persons whom they get in their clutches by means of every kind of enticement, in order to ruin them some day - if they have any expectations or are likely to be rich; or in order to make accomplices of them if they have only aptitudes for the purpose. After having led them from error to error, after suggest ing to them all sorts of wants and vices, they make them gamble, if they are of age; they hold up play to them as an inexhaustible source of wealth.
The 'protector' next hands over his 'young friends to executioners,' who fleece them for the common benefit of the confederates. They do not always wait for the coming of age of their young dupes in order to strike the grand stroke.' When they find that the father of a family shud ders at the idea of a public scandal, they immolate their victim at once - for fear lest he should escape from their hands. Of course they are always Open to capitulate - to come to terms and if the aid of the law is invoked they give in discreetly.
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The income of Chevaliers d industrie is at first derived from those inexperienced persons whom they get in their clutches by means of every kind of enticement, in order to ruin them some day - if they have any expectations or are likely to be rich; or in order to make accomplices of them if they have only aptitudes for the purpose. After having led them from error to error, after suggest ing to them all sorts of wants and vices, they make them gamble, if they are of age; they hold up play to them as an inexhaustible source of wealth.
The 'protector' next hands over his 'young friends to executioners,' who fleece them for the common benefit of the confederates. They do not always wait for the coming of age of their young dupes in order to strike the grand stroke.' When they find that the father of a family shud ders at the idea of a public scandal, they immolate their victim at once - for fear lest he should escape from their hands. Of course they are always Open to capitulate - to come to terms and if the aid of the law is invoked they give in discreetly.
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- Publication date2018
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- ISBN 13 9781330083703
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- Number of pages455
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