# The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)

Author: Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/531

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Gaming+Table%3A+Its+Votaries+and+Victims.+Volume+2+%28of+2%29+Steinmetz&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Chevaliers d'industrie, or polite and accomplished sharpers, have always existed in every city, from the earliest times to the present. The ordinary progress of these interesting gentlemen is as follows. Their debut is often difficult, and many of them are stopped short in their career. They only succeed by means of great exertion and severe trials; but they endure everything in order to be tolerated or permitted to exercise their calling. To secure credit they ally themselves with men of respectability, or those who pass for such. When they have no titles they fabricate them; and few persons dispute their claims. They are found useful for the pleasures of society, the expenses of which t...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-gaming-table-its-votaries-and-victims-volume-2-of-2-531/chapters/12/index.md)