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"Do you really take me for such as that, Emily?" "Yes, I do. That is what they tell me you are. Is it not true? Don't you go to races?" "I should be quite willing to undertake never to put my foot on a racecourse again this minute. I will do so now if you will only ask it of me." She paused a moment, half thinking that she would ask it, but at last she determined against it.
For the stranger who does at least a part of his sight-seeing after a rational and orderly fashion, there are pictures that will live in the memory always: the Madeleine, with the flower market just alongside; the green and gold woods of the Bois de Boulogne; the grandstand of the racecourse at Longchamp on a fair afternoon in the autumn; the Opera at night; the promenade of the Champs-Elysees on a Sunday morning after church; the Gardens of the Tuileries; the wonderful circling plaza of the Place Vendome, where one may spend a happy hour if the maniacal taxi-drivers deign to spare one's life for so unaccountably long a period; the arcades of the Rue de Rivoli, with their exquisite shops, where every other shop is a jeweler's shop and every jeweler's shop is just like every other jeweler's shop which fact ceases to cause wonder when one learns that, with a few notable exceptions, all these shops carry their wares on commission from the stocks of the same manufacturing jewelers; the old Ile de la Cite, with the second-hand bookstalls stretching along the quay, and the Seine placidly meandering between its man-made, man-ruled banks.
But presently a superior official superior in rank alone, for in other respects he looked a miserable creature came up and led me back to the officers. At last, when the crowd had thoroughly satisfied their patriotic curiosity, we were marched off; the soldiers to the enclosed camp on the racecourse, the officers to the States Model Schools prison.
Both of them were good spirited animals, and during the first part of the race it could not be said that either had the advantage. They ran neck and neck together. The racecourse at the Mountain Fort was a beautiful stretch of level turf, which extended a considerable distance in front of the gates.
But I will stay away and never put my foot on another racecourse if you, my cousin, will ask me." "That is nonsense." "Try me. It shall not be nonsense. If you care enough about me to wish to save me from what is evil, you can do it. I care enough about you to give up the pursuit at your bidding."
Here was a Queen's Counsel, a man of so proper a countenance that I do not think it ever smiled in its life, and so very devoted to his profession that he would never think of leaving it to go to a racecourse.
But the child of the thief, the costermonger, the racecourse swindler, the thriftless labourer, is now practically emancipated through the action of sentimental persons. He may go to school or not, as he likes; and, while the decent and orderly poor are harried by School Board regulations, the rough of the slum snaps his fingers without fear at all regulations.
"It's one of the original silver stand tickets of the old racecourse at Market Milcaster," answered Crowfoot. "That's what it is. One of the old original silver stand tickets. There are the arms of Market Milcaster, you see, nearly worn away by much rubbing. There, on the obverse, is the figure of a running horse. Oh, yes, that's what it is! Bless me! most interesting."
It was with a sigh of relief that Jim at last pointed out a paddock across which buggies and horsemen were making their way. "There's the racecourse," he said. "Racecourse!" Tommy ejaculated. "But it just looks like an ordinary paddock." "That's all it is," said Jim, laughing. "You didn't expect a grand-stand and a lawn, did you?
It worries itself about the odds, discusses records, reads the nonsense published by the sporting papers. Were I to find myself on a racecourse in Novel-land I should not trouble about the unessential; I should go up to the bookie who looked as if he had the most money, and should say to him: "Don't shout so loud; you are making yourself hoarse. Just listen to me. Who's the hero of this novel?
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