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Updated: June 7, 2025
They seem to think that the noble foundations of our old universities are hardly fulfilling their functions in their present posture of half-clerical seminaries, half racecourses, where men are trained to win a senior wranglership, or a double-first, as horses are trained to win a cup, with as little reference to the needs of after-life in the case of the man as in that of the racer.
They may prove if they like that he was on all the racecourses in the world, and get that Mrs. Stackpoole to swear to it; and it is ten times worse for a woman to go than it is for a man, at any rate; but it will make no difference. If you and Papa tell me not to see him or write to him, much less to marry him, of course I shall obey you.
I'll get him over the fences, somehow." "Do you think it lucky, then, to meet a hearse?" "Oh, yes," he said, "if you meet it. You mustn't overtake it that's unlucky. So is a cross-eyed man unlucky. Cross-eyed men ought to be kept off racecourses." He reappeared clad in his racing rig, and we set off to see the horse saddled. We found the owner in a great state of excitement.
Availing himself of the powers intrusted to him by the "instrument," he gave the chief commands in the army to men in whom he could confide; quartered the troops in the manner best calculated to put down any insurrection; and, among the multitude of ordinances which he published, was careful to repeal the acts enforcing the Engagement; to forbid all meetings on racecourses or at cockpits, to explain what offences should be deemed treason against his government; and to establish a high court of justice for the trial of those who might be charged with such offences.
He would have the best of everything society, clubs, sport. Now all these were barred against him. If he had reappeared he could not have shown his face in Pall Mall, or on the racecourses, and every moment of his life would be full of humiliations and bitterness. Virtually then, for such a man as he was, life in England was over. Then there was you.
When she spoke of temptation not resisted, she was still thinking of commonplace extravagance, of the ordinary pleasures of fast young men, of racecourses, and betting, perhaps, and of tailors' bills. That lie which he had told about Goodwood she had, as it were, thrown behind her, so that she should not be forced to look at it.
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