If he wanted to draw Charter Wood he would take his hounds out of the street at Egham directly in the other direction.

If he had made up his mind to ride Lord Pottlepot's horse for the great Leamington handicap, he would be sure to tell even his intimate friends that he was almost determined to take the "baronet's" offer of a mount.

This he would do even where there was no possible turn in the betting to be affected by such falsehood.

So that his companions were apt to complain that there was no knowing where to have Tifto.

And then, they who were old enough in the world to have had some experience in men, had perceived that peculiar quality of his eyes, which never allowed him to look any one in the face.
That Major Tifto should make money by selling horses was, perhaps, a necessity of his position.