The Life of a Great Sportsman 



better sample be found. The drill of the troop was steady ; 

 men and horses were equally well drilled ; and the style in 

 which the troop appeared could not be excelled, except in 

 crack cavalry regiments in the Regular Service, and he (Col. 

 Garnett) should have great pleasure in reporting favourably to 

 the Horse Guards of the splendid troop he had that day 

 inspected." 



It will be seen by the foregoing that in this part of the work 

 allotted to my brother Maunsell, he acquitted himself in a 

 satisfactory manner. Love, they say, makes a pleasure of all 

 toil for the beloved, and my brother Maunsell's reward came 

 when in 1881 the present Lord Yarborough came of age, and 

 Lady Yarborough felt free to marry the man of her choice. 

 For seven years he had waited patiently, and I am very sure 

 that had his divinity elected to marry some one else, he would 

 have remained a bachelor to the end of his days. 



It is well said, " Our trials often end in becoming our 

 blessings," for there is no doubt that those seven years of 

 waiting developed and softened my brother Maunsell's perhaps 

 almost too strong character in a remarkable degree. Accus- 

 tomed as a child to have his own way in everything ; admired 

 for his good looks ; loved and made much of by his mother 

 and grandmother, his school and college friends, and in fact 

 by nearly all with whom he came in contact, his naturally fine 

 character might in some degree easily have been spoilt, but 

 this wonderful lesson of patience that he learnt almost un- 

 consciously, and certainly on Lady Yarborough's part was 

 taught quite without premeditation, was a godsend in the 

 perfecting of his character, showing him that it is at times but 

 the necessary law of human nature, that our wills, however 

 strong, may be thwarted by circumstances over which we 

 have no control ; and then we learn patience. 



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