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It seems to be easy enough for peer after peer to fling away a hundred thousand at Newmarket or Tattersall's, and yet a hundred thousand would establish in the crowded haunts of working London great "Conservatoires" where the finest music might be brought to bear without cost on the coarseness and vulgarity of the life of the poor.
It is true that I was guiltless of any real offence, but I saw that the charge of complicity with the chauffeur a charge that had certainly not lost in substance or in its suggestion of perfidy by Miss Tattersall's rendering was one that I could not wholly refute.
Oh, that doesn't matter; it's quite the thing nowadays to stare at people as if they were yearlings at Tattersall's." "Mrs. Spelvexit? Quite a charming woman; separated from her husband" "Incompatibility of income?" "Oh, nothing of that sort. By miles of frozen ocean, I was going to say.
And an evenin' party, I wouldn't take my oath I wouldn't go to, though I don't know hardly what to talk about, except America; and I've bragged so much about that, I'm tired of the subject. But a Swoi-ree is the devil, that's a fact." "Squire," said Mr. Slick, "it ain't rainin' to-day; suppose you come along with me to Tattersall's.
"I must be at Tattersall's on Monday, uncle; there is a horse I must have for next season. Pray, uncle, may I ask when you are likely to want me?" "Let me see this is May about July, I should think." "July, uncle! Spare me I cannot marry in the dog-days. No, hang it! not July."
'This is a secret between us, Garnet. Your partners 'Shall know nothing. And as for myself, I am as close as an emerald in a seal-ring. Close of the Season HUSSEIN PACHA, 'the favourite, not only of the Marquess of Mash, but of Tattersall's, unaccountably sickened and died. His noble master, full of chagrin took to his bed, and followed his steed's example.
As the head of the house, he felt that he ought to have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the hand; "For they must have been seen together," he observed, "once at Tattersall's, and twice in the lobby of the House of Commons." His disapprobation was expressed, but apparently very little regarded.
Tattersall's, therefore, is not without its privateers. Many persons of rank and character patronize sporting, from a patriotic but mistaken notion, that it is to the turf alone the excellence of the English horse is attributable.
He was told that the count had walked out with Mr. Frank Hazeldean and some other gentlemen who had breakfasted with him. He had left word, in case any one called, that he had gone to Tattersall's to look at some horses that were for sale. To Tattersall's went Harley. The count was in the yard leaning against a pillar, and surrounded by fashionable friends.
It was said, in Kildare Street, that no one at Tattersall's could beat him at a book. He had latterly been trying a wider field than the Curragh supplied him and had, on one or two occasions, run a horse in England with such success, as had placed him, at any rate, quite at the top of the Irish sporting tree.
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