'I've cut your pictures out of the papers to keep them--at Eton and Oxford.' He laughed in great good-humour and pride.

'So so, so so, and I am a hero then, with one follower! Well, well, dear lad, I don't often go wrong, or anyhow I'm oftener right than wrong, and you might do worse than follow me--but no, I don't want that responsibility.

Go on your own--go on your own.' "A minute more and he was gone with a wave of the hand, and in excitement I picked up the betting-book.

It almost took my breath away.
He had staked a thousand pounds that the favourite of the Derby would not win the race, and that one of three outsiders would.

As I sat overpowered by the magnitude of the bet the door opened, and he appeared with another man, not one with whose face I was then familiar, though as a duke and owner of great possessions, he was familiar to society.