[The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Snobs CHAPTER XXIX--A VISIT TO SOME COUNTRY SNOBS 2/14
He has lost and won such sums of money as my Lord George himself might be proud of. He knows all the stables, and all the jockeys, and has all the 'information,' and is a match for the best Leg at Newmarket.
Nobody was ever known to be 'too much' for him at play or in the stable. Although his grandfather makes him a moderate allowance, by the aid of POST-OBITS and convenient friends he can live in a splendour becoming his rank.
He has not distinguished himself in the knocking down of policemen much; he is not big enough for that.
But, as a light-weight, his skill is of the very highest order.
At billiards he is said to be first-rate.
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