 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1881 - 464 pages
...success, and in less than ten minutes won £1500. He then stopped, made a fair division, and giving £750 to Sheridan, said to him : ' There, Tom, go home,...your wife and brats a supper, and never play again." At a dinner given on the reopening of Watier's club in Piccadilly, Brummell and the late Duke of Beaufort,... | |
 | William Jesse - 1886 - 456 pages
...success, and in less than ten minutes won £1500; he then stopped, made a fair division, and giving £750 to Sheridan, said to him : ' There, Tom, go home and...the set, and of a spirit of liberality in Brummell." The reaction, however, came at last ; the stakes were too high, and the purses of his companions too... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1906 - 398 pages
...Then he left the table and divided his gains with Sheridan. " Go home, Sherry," he said quietly ; " go home and give your wife and brats a supper, and never play again." It is good to be able to record a generous act, delicately done, of a much-abused man._^-^ Of BrummelTs... | |
 | Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold - Dandies - 1910 - 406 pages
...became the possessor of £1,500. Rising from the table he counted out £750 to Sheridan, saying : " There, Tom, go home and give your wife and brats a supper, and never play again." That Sheridan went home gladly with the money may be unquestioned ; that he took the latter piece of... | |
 | Arthur Irwin Dasent - London (England) - 1920 - 390 pages
...fortunate as to win ,£1,500 here in ten minutes. Half of this he insisted on giving to Sheridan, saying: " There, Tom, go home and give your wife and brats a supper, and never play again." " The play at Watier's is tremendous," wrote Sir Harry Featherstone to Arthur Paget in May, 1811. "... | |
 | California - 1881 - 552 pages
...success, and in less than ten minutes won ^1500. He then stopped, made a fair division, and giving .£750 to Sheridan, said to him: 'There, Tom, go home, and...your wife and brats a supper, and never play again.' " At a dinner party on the reopening of Waiter's Club in Piccadilly, Brummell and the late Duke of... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1858 - 886 pages
...his own, in less than ten minutes found himself in possession of £1500. Giving Sheridan £750, he said to him, " There, Tom, go home and give your wife and brats a supper, and never play again." Those were gambling days : the young men nil played. It is a question whether Fox was, in his own day,... | |
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There, Tom, go home, and give your wife and brats a supper, and never play again. 