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Updated: June 1, 2025
He had been wearing their leek-green colors the day she had sat in his lap in her father's courtyard. He had haunted their training-stables during his brief sojourn at Rome before Aurelius sent him to Africa, he had inherited a big block of stock in the Greens.
Outside of Rome they had similar offices and training-stables in every city and in most towns of any size or wealth. Besides they owned countless stud-farms, estates and ranches in every province of the Empire and maintained an army of herdsmen, ostlers and drovers to convoy their horses by land and whole fleets of ships to transport them by sea.
He was harshly treated and ran away; wandered to some training-stables near Newmarket; attracted the favorable notice of the head-groom, was employed among the other boys, and liked the occupation. Growing up to manhood, he had taken service in private families as a groom. This was the story of twenty-six years of Michael's life.
We had the corner of a Pullman car to ourselves that evening as we whirled back to London, and I fancy that the journey was a short one to Colonel Ross as well as to myself, as we listened to our companion's narrative of the events which had occurred at the Dartmoor training-stables upon the Monday night, and the means by which he had unravelled them.
His age, she thought, would be rather over thirty than under it. "'Can you tell me where I am? he asked. 'I had almost made up my mind to sleep on the moor, when I saw the light of your lantern. "'You are close to the King's Pyland training-stables, said she. "'Oh, indeed! What a stroke of luck! he cried. 'I understand that a stable-boy sleeps there alone every night.
She haunted the training-stables of all six corporations, but mostly of the Greens, always in company with Manlia, or Flexinna, or Nemestronia or some other of her women friends; she visited the barracks almost daily, chatted with the charioteers, grooms and ostlers, watched the exercising of the teams, inspected the stalls, conned the racers.
On this ground as good as, if not better than, that at Newmarket there is to-day a track of two thousand mètres, or a mile and a quarter the distance generally adopted in France with good turns, excepting the one known as the "Réservoirs," which is rather awkward, and which has the additional disadvantage of skirting the road to the training-stables a temptation to bolt that is sometimes too strong for horses of a doubtful character.
'And why wouldn't he, if the child is nowhere in Bayford? 'I can't answer it to his mother wasting time in this way. You may do as you like. I shall go to the training-stables, where he has once been, if not on to Fairmead. I can't see Sophy till he is found! 'I shall abide by my little Orangeman, said Ulick; and they parted.
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