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This quality was in his fibre, in the consistency of his blood, and confronted with a situation which, to some men, and especially to men not brought up on the hereditary plan, might have seemed desperate, he exhibited no sign of anxiety or distress. Into the consideration of his difficulties he imported certain principles: He did not intend to be posted at Tattersalls.

By the light of the candle in his silver candlestick her dark eyes seemed suddenly alive. "He's been betting; he's sold his horse. He'd never have sold that horse unless he were pushed. For all I know, he may be posted at Tattersalls!" The sheets shivered as though she who lay within them were struggling. Then came her voice, cool and gentle: "All young men bet, Horace; you must know that!"

That fellow who bought George's horse, for instance; you'd never have seen his nose in Tattersalls when I was a young man. I find when I go racing I don't know half the colours. It spoils the pleasure. It's no longer the close borough that it was. George had better take care what he's about. I can't imagine what we're coming to!"

And since at Tattersalls and the Stock Exchange, where men are engaged in perpetual motion, an almost absurd punctiliousness is required in the payment of those sums which have for the moment inadvertently been lost, seventeen hundred and ninety-five of this must infallibly be raised by Monday next.

"So-so." They parted on the racecourse. George went at once to see his trainer and thence into Tattersalls' ring. He took with him that equation with X, and sought the society of two gentlemen quietly dressed, one of whom was making a note in a little book with a gold pencil. They greeted him respectfully, for it was to them that he owed the bulk of that seventeen hundred and ninety-five pounds.

Spruce, who had earned his title of Captain on the plains of Newmarket, which had witnessed for many a year his successful exploits, had a weakness for the aristocracy, who knowing his graceful infirmity patronized him with condescending dexterity, acknowledged his existence in Pall Mall as well as at Tattersalls, and thus occasionally got a point more than the betting out of him.

Turned out of the Jockey Club, turned out of Tattersalls', turned out of the betting-ring; in short, posted publicly as a defaulter before the noblest institution in England, the Turf and all for want of five hundred pounds to stop the mouth of the greatest brute I know of, Alfred Hardyman! Dear and admirable woman!

I take her off pretty quick, I can tell you, if I think she's going to spoil my sale; but I never mount a woman. Your sister is a magnificent rider, or I would never have put her on that horse. Now come along and with any luck you will be alone with hounds this afternoon and Havoc will be knocked down at Tattersalls for five hundred guineas." MARGOT: "You are sure you want me to go on?"

Nugent's coachman for twenty pounds. 'Hush, Maurice! said his father, 'you know nothing of it; and Mr. Cavendish Dusautoy pursued, 'It was bred at Lord Lewthorp's, and sold because it was too tall for its companion. Laing was on the point of sending it to Tattersalls, where he was secure of a hundred, but he was willing to oblige me, as we had had transactions before.

"Well, Dolly dear, do you see how much Mr. Abel Newt resembles Lord Tattersalls?" "Yes, ma." "It's very striking, isn't it?" "Yes, ma." "Or now I look, I think he is even more like the Marquis of Crockford. Don't you think so?" "Yes, ma?" "Very like indeed." "Yes, ma." "Dolly, dear, don't you think his nose is like the Duke of Wellington's? You remember the Wellington nose, my child?" "Yes, ma."