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Indeed, he is young, and hath not seen much of the world; for I believe he hath been at very few horse-races." "Oho! he is one of your order, is he?" replies the landlady: "he must be a gentleman to be sure, if he is a horse-racer. The devil fetch such gentry! I am sure I wish I had never seen any of them. I have reason to love horse-racers truly!"
Vandeleur, six feet high, lank, but graceful as a panther, and the pink of politeness, was, beneath his varnish, one of the wildest young men in London gambler, horse-racer, libertine, what not? but in society charming, and his manners singularly elegant and winning. He never obtruded his vices in good company; in fact, you might dine with him all your life and not detect him.
And while the horse-racer and the wine-merchant were still discussing preliminaries, and Mr Pillans was privately ascertaining whether his nose was bleeding, Horace departed in peace, partly amused, partly vexed, and decidedly of opinion that Blandford had taken to keeping very queer company since he last saw him.
Has he been collaring any of your spoons? or setting the house on fire? or what? Who is he?" "He's cheeked me!" said Pillans, brushing the dust off his coat. "Hold him fast, will you? till I take it out of him." But the horse-racer was far too much of a sportsman for that. "No, no," said he, laughing; "make a mill of it and I'm your man. I'll bet two to one on the young 'un to start with."
"I do not for a moment mean to say that he is a reckless bettor or a mere gambling horse-racer; and, after all, to enter a horse or two for the local races, or even Newmarket, is perfectly allowable in a man of his fortune it will neither make him nor mar him." "It will mar him," returned Mr. Liddell, in more energetic tones than Katherine had heard him utter since he was laid up.
You would probably look in vain through our ranks for a horse-racer, a gambler, a profane person, a rum-drinker, or a duellist. More than nine-tenths of us deny the rightfulness of offensive, and a large majority, even that of defensive national wars. A still larger majority believe, that deadly weapons should not be used in cases of individual strife.
Many worthy parents have been ruined by the sons whom they had sent thither to be made scholars of; but who have learnt only to be "gentlemen" in the popular acceptation of the word. To be a "gentleman" nowadays, is to be a gambler, a horse-racer, a card-player, a dancer, a hunter, a roué, or all combined. The "gentleman" lives fast, spends fast, drinks fast, dies fast.
Make a drunkard steady! make a bad son steady! make a gambler steady! make a horse-racer steady! make make make hold your tongue, sir: don't say a word for the ungrateful girl never mention her name to me again I never wish to see her face more as long as I live I I I Mr Prothero's passion choked his words.
My mother was hired out in the city, and I was also hired out there to Major Freeland, who kept a public house. He was formerly from Virginia, and was a horse-racer, cock-fighter, gambler, and withal an inveterate drunkard. There were ten or twelve servants in the house, and when he was present, it was cut and slash knock down and drag out.
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