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Updated: September 14, 2025
Whipcord was discoursing on the points of every racehorse in the calendar to the twins, who had evidently never seen a racehorse; and Daly was telling stories which half choked Crow, and kept us all in fits of laughter. It was a new life to me, this, and no mistake. "Now then, young Batchelor, walk into those sardines, do you hear?" said our host. "Any more coffee, twins?
He quietly ducked, allowing his unscientific assailant to overbalance himself, and topple head first on the lobby outside, at the particular moment when the real owner of the racehorse and the real wine-merchant, who had just arrived, reached the top of the stairs. "Hullo, young fellow!" said the sporting gentleman; "practising croppers, are you? or getting up an appetite? or what?
My friend, W.R. Johnson, has many a groom that can clean and dress a racehorse, and ride him too, better than he can." He made the sweeping assertion, that no man had ever presided over a government with advantage to the country governed, who had not in him the making of a good general; for, said he, "the talent for government lies in these two things, sagacity to perceive, and decision to act."
"That is, he did not want it for himself." He hesitated, and then resumed: "He states that if I could raise a moderate sum, he knows how we could make a very satisfactory profit in a short time. It seems he has got a useful hint." Grace laughed. "About a racehorse? Gerald is always hopeful, but his confidence in his ability to spot the winner is dangerous. It has been so often misplaced."
So that ended the runaway, except for a very lame boy, Tom Mason, who had to limp around for a day or two from stiffness. "How would you like to be a jockey!" laughed his companions. "You held on like a champion, but you were not in training for the banging you got." "Well, I guess Sable will make a fine racehorse," said Tom, "when he's broken.
I believe him to be a fool, and I never heard of his doing a kind act to anybody in my life." "Not when he gave the racehorse to Lady Glencora?" "I wonder whether that was true. Did you ever hear of such an absurdity? As I was saying, I don't think he ever did anything for anybody; but then, you know, to be Duke of Omnium!
Then I walked back under the blazing sun across the Savanna, over the sensitive plants and the mole-crickets' nests, while the great locusts whirred up before me at every step; toward the archway between the bamboo-clumps, and the red sentry shining like a spark of fire beneath its deep shadow; and found on my way a dying racehorse, with a group of coloured men round him, whom I advised in vain to do the one thing needful put a blanket over him to keep off the sun, for the poor thing had fallen from sunstroke; so I left them to jabber and do nothing: asking myself Is the human race, in the matter of amusements, as civilised as it was say three thousand years ago?
"Oh! as for me, I'm the devil. I've a tail, only I don't wear it, except on state occasions; and I've horns and hoofs, only people can't see them. But I don't see why Morris should not succeed: he's the only one of the four that doesn't own a racehorse, and that's much in his favour. What do you say, Morris?"
But she had a brave, strong heart, that after a little would leap forward, like a checked racehorse to its duty. This might not have been, had she always relied upon her own strength, which so far as human power can go, was to be confided in.
Manifestly their better thoughts were gaining the ascendency. And they heaped thereafter every kindness upon me, as if to make amends for harder suspicions. Next morning the master drove me about ten miles farther on to the Church. A groom rode the racehorse, who took no scathe from his thundering gallop of the day before. It left deeper traces upon me.
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