Matthews thought that the chances were in his favour.

As you are a neighbour of theirs, too, I suppose you will know him ?" "I knew him at one time, Colonel, but I have not seen him now for a good many years, beyond meeting him two or three times at dinners and so on last season.

He was away when I was at home before going out to India, and he had sold his estate before I came back." "They say he has been very lucky on the turf, and has made a pot of money." "So I have heard," Frank said; "but, you see, one generally hears of men's good luck, and not of their bad.

Besides, many men do most of their real betting through commissioners, especially if they own horses themselves.

He is a fellow I don't much care for, and I hope that whomever Miss Greendale may marry, he will not be the man." "I thought, when you first asked me down last year, that you had got up the party specially for her, Mallett, and that you were going in for the prize yourself.