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Then we have private matches. There is one to-night. Lord Meadowson and I have a wager of a thousand guineas. He has brought to-night from the East End a boxer who, according to the terms of our bet, has never before engaged in a professional contest. I have brought an amateur under the same conditions.
Lady Cynthia, as a somewhat blatant but discomfited Peer of the Realm took his awkward leave of them, laughed softly. "Of course, I think they all deserve what they get," she declared. "I never heard such brazen impudence in my life from people who ought to know better, too." Lord Meadowson, a sporting peer, who was one of Sir Timothy's few intimates, came over to the table.
"The History of Leonora Meadowson," published in two volumes in 1788, is but a recombination of materials already familiar to the reading public. Leonora rashly yields to the wishes of her first lover, weds another, and makes yet a second experiment in matrimony before she finds her true mate in the faithful Fleetwood, whom she had thought inconstant.
I will only say that the first in the ring is the nominee of our friend and host, Sir Timothy Brast; second comes the nominee of Lord Meadowson." Wilmore, notwithstanding his pre-knowledge, gave a little gasp. The young man who stood now within a few yards of him, carelessly swinging his gloves in his hand, was without a doubt his missing brother.
"There will be no hitch so far as we are concerned," Sir Timothy assured him. "More mysteries?" Margaret enquired, as Meadowson departed with a smile of satisfaction. Her father shrugged his shoulders. "Scarcely that," he replied. "It is a little wager between Lord Meadowson and myself which is to be settled to-morrow."
There was Baker, a judge, a couple of actors, Lord Meadowson, the most renowned of sporting peers, and a dozen who followed in his footsteps; a little man who had once been amateur champion in the bantam class, and who was now considered the finest judge of boxing in the world; a theatrical manager, the present amateur boxing champion, and a sprinkling of others.
Griffith, Collection of Novels , II, 159, prefers 1759. The two novels were Clementina , a revision of The Agreeable Caledonian, and The History of Leonora Meadowson . The little amatory tales which formed Mrs. Haywood's chief stock in trade when she first set up for a writer of fiction, inherited many of the characteristics of the long-winded French romances.
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