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Excerpt from Night and Morning, Vol. 1 of 3
Cambridge, where he had contrived, in three years, to run through a little fortune of 3,5ooi., without gaining in return any more valuable mental acquisitions than those of making the most admirable milk-punch, and becoming the most redoubted boxer in his college; or any more desirable reputation than that of being one of the best-natured, rattling, open-hearted companions whom you could desire by your side in a tandem to Newmarket, or in a row with the bargemen. He had not failed, by the help of these gifts and accomplishments, to find favour, while his money lasted, with the young aristocracy of the Gentle Mother. And, though the very reverse of an ambitious or calculating man, he had certainly nourished the belief that some one of the hats or tinsel gowns i. E. Young lords or fellow-commoners, with whom he was on such excellent terms, and who supped with him so often - would do something for him in the way of a living. But it so happened that when Mr. Caleb Price had, with a little difficulty, scrambled.
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