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clocks are fast, and he dines exactly at six." — " In twenty minutes," 

 replied I, "my toilet will be completed; but pray let me ask 

 you one question — you have brought me hither, but how am I 

 to find my way to the di'awing-room ? I shall make a wrong 

 turn and he lost." The groom smiled, and said he would come 

 and fetch me when I rang my bell. 



I found the Marquis "'' and his family in good health and spirits, 

 a small select party as his guests, and everything as I expected to 

 find it at Eaby Castle : but amidst the glitter of affluence which is 

 so conspicuous here, there is nothing to chill into awe those who 

 move in a lower sphere of life. If rank and wealth w^ere his boast, 

 the Marquis of Cleveland — like Nebuchadnezzar the King — could 

 bask in the sunshine on the battlements of his palace, and look down 

 in his prosperity on nine-tenths of the world. But nothing is less 

 like the Noble owner of Eaby. No ; there is in this favoured son of 

 Fortune — and indeed on all who bear his name — a praiseworthy 

 affability that sets perfectly at their ease all those who are in his 

 presence ; and it may be asserted of him, as was said of a great 

 character of antiquity, that "no man can be great with so much 

 ease, none familiar with so much dignity;" and herein consists one 

 of the greatest ornaments to rank. 



Private character is not within the pale of my critical synod ; but 

 in describing such a top-sawyer as the Marquis of Cleveland has 

 proved himself for so many revolving years, it would be unjust to 

 the cause of fox-hunting were I not to exhibit him in his several 

 characters of an accomplished English gentleman and a first-rate 

 English sportsman. In the one, perhaps, his merit may be but 

 lightly appreciated ; for to say he is the best bred man in England 

 would be but saying little. Those who, like himself, are placed in 

 the first class of the community, acquire, as it were naturally, that 

 easy deportment which their situation confers on them, and the 

 savoir vivre QXidi the savoir faire become their second nature. Asa 

 British sportsman — taking all things into account — I fearlessly 

 assert, he has not his fellow. Lord Cleveland is a sportsman in the 

 real acceptation of that comprehensive term ; not one of your battue 



* The Earl of Darlington had just been elevated to the Marquisate of Cleveland. 



