The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 1 Chapter 69

In which Godfrey, with artful cunning and a soldier's steadiness, engages a company of gamblers at Bath in a high-stakes game of billiards, leading to the ruin of a notorious band of sharpers by a combination of skill and stratagem. Peregrine, admiring his friend's triumph yet mindful of delicate honour, seeks to share the spoils but finds Godfrey resolutely proud in his independence, prompting a discreet act of generosity and the promise of further favours.