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Updated: June 28, 2025
The best lesson that little boy could be taught, is, that of the Patron, or the Cows Tail." To-day I visited Ascot. Race-courses are similar every where, and present the same objects; good horses, cruel riders, knowing men, dupes, jockeys, gamblers, and a large assemblage of mixed company.
Except when she happened to be on duty watching the sacred fire, she never missed a theatrical performance, a gladiatorial display or an exhibition of chariot-racing in anyone of the vast race-courses flanked by tiers of stone-seats, which the Romans called circuses. At all shows, whether of scenic artists, fighting men or speeding horses, the Vestals had specified seats, as good as the best.
"You believe, then," Peter asked, "that these strikes have some definite tendency?" Sogrange set down his cup and smiled bitterly. In the early sunlight, still a little cold and unloving, Peter could see that there was a change in the man. He was no longer the debonair aristocrat of the race-courses and the boulevards. The shadows under his eyes were deeper, his cheeks more sunken.
'You'll have plenty of it, in your time, returned Sir Mulberry Hawk; 'Nickleby will tell you that. 'What do you say, Nickleby? inquired the young man; 'am I to be a good customer? 'It depends entirely on circumstances, my lord, replied Ralph. 'On your lordship's circumstances, interposed Colonel Chowser of the Militia and the race-courses.
At first, when the bride supposed that there was heaps of money, she enjoyed gambling, too, and they were always at Longchamps, or Chantilly, or the English race-courses, or at Aix or Monte Carlo.
Generosity, justice, disdain of animosity-these virtues were learnt on the playing-fields and race-courses. England knows their value; she treats war as a sport because so she will fight better. For her that approach to adversity is normal. With us war is a sport. With the French it is a martyrdom. But with the Americans it is a job. "We've got four years to do this job.
France will perceive too late, after he has disappeared, the loss she has sustained when this Prince, Grand Seigneur, has ceased to embellish by his presence her race-courses and "first nights." A reputation like his cannot be improvised in a moment, and he has no pupils.
These race-courses are not for horse-racing, but for reservoirs of avarice and drunkenness and prostitution. Don't think" he was looking straight into the painted faces of the women in pink and yellow, who were trying to smile and look amused "don't think I am going to abuse the unhappy girls who are forced by a corrupt civilization to live by their looks.
Yet still, for some little time longer, she, with a deplorable fatuity, believed in and loved him. After he had squandered her own fortune on gaming-tables and race-courses, he wished to get possession of the fortune of her son.
As far as I can see, no good comes of money spent on race-courses, and in gorgeous gowns." This went on from day to day throughout a month, and every day Lady Anna took her place with her lover. After a while her mother came up into the drawing-room in Keppel Street, and then the two ladies again lived together. Little or nothing, however, was said between them as to their future lives.
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