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stout, of whom the quaint Biblical conceit was in- 

 vented by some temperance wag : " He who is not 

 for us is agin us.* He brews XX." Lord Iveagh 

 bought the estates and paid for them, but the House 

 of Lords refused to sanction the sale, and so Savernake 

 still belongs to the Brudenell-Bruces. 



The late Marquis had a perfect genius for dis- 

 sipating wealth. A "horsey" man among the 

 " horsey," his favourite companions were sporting 

 men of the more unrefined type, and he was hail- 

 fellow with the cab-men and 'bus-men of London. 

 Eadicals found in his career a text for their discourses 

 and a reason for abolisliino; the House of Lords as an 

 hereditary chamber ; and the ballet-girls of the London 

 theatres regarded him as all a Peer should be. One 

 who knew " Lord Stomach-ache," as he was playfully 

 nicknamed before he had succeeded to the Marquisate 

 and was yet Lord Savernake, said — 



" The wealth and colour of his lordship's language 

 surprised me. I never knew or heard a costermonger 

 in the Dials with such a repertory. I saw him once 

 with a couple of choice friends on a costermonger's 

 barrow, such as is used for hawking fish or vegetables. 

 One ' pal ' had a ' yard of tin ' (or coaching horn), on 

 which he tootled melodiously. His lordship wore a 

 very high collar, a blue birds-eye belcher fjistened with 

 a nursery-pin for a necktie, a huge drab box-cloth coat 

 with large mother- o'-pearl buttons, a low-crowned, 

 broad-brimmed coachman's hat, and a very tight pair 



'■' Lord Iveagh's name is Gruinness. Unfortunately for the 

 thoroughness of the jest, there are but thirteen chapters in 

 the Epistle to the Hebrews. 



