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He had therefore passed much of his time with Major Tifto. And when this visit to Silverbridge was pressed on him he thoughtlessly asked Tifto to go with him. Tifto was delighted. Lord Silverbridge was to be met at Silverbridge by various well-known politicians from the neighbourhood, and Major Tifto was greatly elated by the prospect of such an introduction into the political world.
The affair was ended by a magnanimous declaration on the part of Major Tifto that he would not remain in a club in which he was suspected, and by a consent on the part of the meeting to receive the Major's instant resignation. The Duke's Arguments The Duke before he left Custins had an interview with Lady Cantrip, at which that lady found herself called upon to speak her mind freely.
It did not behove even those who would win by the transaction to stand up for its honesty. The intention had been to take the horse round a portion of the outside of the course near to which his stable stood. A boy rode him and the groom and Tifto went with him. At a certain spot on their return Tifto had exclaimed that the horse was going lame in his off fore-foot.
When it is settled, let me know at once." "But if it should never be settled?" "I will ask no questions; but if it be settled, tell me." Then in Palace Yard he was turning to go, but before he did so, he said another word leaning on his son's shoulder. "I do not think that Mabel Grex and Major Tifto would do well together at all." "There shall be an end to that, sir."
"That's rather sudden; isn't it?" asked the Major. "Well; yes; I suppose it is sudden." "It's throwing us over a little, isn't it?" "Not that I see. You've got the trap and the horses." "Yes; we've got the trap and the horses," said Dolly, "and I vote we make a start." "As you are not going yourself, perhaps I'd better drive your horses," said Tifto. "Dolly will take the team," said his Lordship.
But this was an arrangement, which, if made just now, would not suit the Major's views. They went to Newmarket, and there they met Captain Green. "Tifto," said the young Lord, "I won't have that fellow with us when the horse is galloping." "There isn't an honester man, or a man who understands a horse's paces better in all England," said Tifto.
"I beg your pardon, Silverbridge," said the Major, entering the room, "but I was looking for Longstaff." "He isn't here," said Silverbridge, who did not wish to be interrupted by his racing friend. "Your father, I believe?" said Tifto. He was red in the face but was in other respects perhaps improved in appearance by his liquor.
The feeling was strengthened by the admirable condition of Prime Minister. Surely more consideration had been due to a man who had produced such a state of things! "I wouldn't quarrel with him, but I'd make him pay his way," said the prudent Captain. "As for that, of course he does pay his share." "Who does all the work?" "That's true." "The fact is, Tifto, you don't make enough out of it.
"I have got my little money on, and what little I have I lose," he said in answer to inquiries. But everyone knew that he could not but have a great interest in a race, as to which the half owner of the favourite was a peculiarly intimate friend of his own. Had he come down to the stables and been seen about the place with Tifto it might have been better.
He was imbued with a feeling that it behoved him as a man to "pull himself together," as he would have said himself, and to live in accordance with certain rules. He could make the rules easily enough, but he had never yet succeeded in keeping any one of them. He had determined to sever himself from Tifto, and, in doing that, had intended to sever himself from affairs of the turf generally.
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