It was to him quite a matter of course that he should see his brother's horse run for the Derby.

But, unfortunately, in this very year a stand was being made by the University pundits against a practice which they thought had become too general.

For the last year or two it had been considered almost as much a matter of course that a Cambridge undergraduate should go to the Derby as that a Member of Parliament should do so.

Against this three or four rigid disciplinarians had raised their voices,--and as a result, no young man up at Trinity could get leave to be away on the Derby pretext.
Lord Gerald raged against the restriction very loudly.

He at first proclaimed his intention of ignoring the college authorities altogether.