That ho always found plenty of people
willing to accompany him on these perilous
oxemions only shows what risks tho
impecunious Briton will face unflinchingly.
At race meetings 3Jr. Schneider's
round, rosy face hud latterly become
by all observers, not so much on
account of the animals he owned, although
ho alwiys had a few in training.
;-of lhf prodigious bets with which he
alternately, dehghte 1 anil exnsp?rat' I
the bookmakers.
That indolent cynic, Lorl Gnis, took
him up, thinking tlmt some aniU8cut"nt
might bo got out of him. Lord Guise
valued London society about m lunch as
everybody values what is to bo had for
the asking. Hi- knew, what many less
highly placed individuals have discovered,
that this toe;ety ;s not composed
of specially agrriettblo or talented or even
well bred unit; and that, unlike that of
most European capitals, its doors will
always to the pressure of a golden
key. He himself, therefore, did not
care to figure prominently at its gatherings;
but he was willing enough to fit
little Schneider' golden latchkey into
the lock for lum Few tilings tickled
him more thnn r. watch the dealings of
nobly born l.i lies with rich parvenus.
The ladioti. ho had noticed, almost invariably
have to, bwallow more diit
than the parvenus, and if tli'.v make
ugly faces over it, as they sometimes do,
that is great fun.
