Then perhaps he incurred a gaming debt so large he couldn't repay it.
It was rumoured that he was in trouble, being pressed to pay a gaming debt.
I don't think either of them has large gaming debts.
You don't have the means to pay your gaming debts.
"I don't know whether your brother has told you this, but he agreed to betroth you to me in payment of a gaming debt."
Had he been settling a gaming debt owed to Newberry?
After a pause, he said abruptly, "Do you know the sum of my father's gaming debts?"
Who would have the kind of money to cover his gaming debts?
They certainly didn't have enough sols together to pay off their gaming debts, but they sure are acting like it.
Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts.