Miller observed--'We have cleaned him.' If the
attorney had remarked on this at the time, they would have broken
his head, or thrown him out of the window.
He had often seen men pawn their watches and rings to Miller, and
once a man actually pawned his coat, and went away without it!
When articles were offered to be pawned, Liston, who was a
partner in the concern, said--'I don't understand the value of
these things well,' and he would then call Miller.[44]
[44] Even at the present day it is said that other 'articles'
besides 'valuables' are 'left' with the marker at billiards 'for
a consideration.' A fine umbrella, very little used, was lately
shown to me as having been sold for five shillings, by a marker;
it probably cost twenty-five.
Miller said there was no disgrace in standing in the pillory for
gaming. He could spare L500 out of his coffers without missing
it. His gaming table was once broken up by a warrant from Bow
Street, when he said it was too good a thing to relinquish, and
he set up another, one large enough for 20 or 30 persons to sit
at. They played at it all night, and on one or two occasions all
the next day too, so that Miller said to witness on his return in
the evening--'Some of the people are still here who came last
night.
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