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In his every-day life Mr. Marvin is, under all circum- 

 stances, a gentleman. His manner is easy and rather 

 retiring, and in conversation he is at first somewhat 

 reticent ; but when he breaks through the ice, he talks 

 freely and instructively, while always modestly. He 

 does not feel the necessity of tiresome and hollow 

 boasting, and is content to be judged on what he has 

 accomplished. Mr. Marvin is, as already stated, excep- 

 tionally happy in his domestic life, and he is essentially 

 a domestic man, loving his home and his family above 

 all things else, and enjoying life nowhere as there. 



Perhaps no man hving is better fitted to give a just 

 estimate of Charles Marvin's character than Col. Henry 

 S. Russell, who owned Smuggler in the days of his 

 glory on the turf. I cannot better close this inadequate 

 sketch of his career than by quoting the following 

 letter, written some years ago by Colonel Eussell to the 

 Breeders'' Gazette: 



" In addition to your very just praise of Charles 

 Marvin as a' driver, I beg to give my testimony of him 

 as a man. Xot only the horse, but the owner as well, 

 may have every confidence in him. If the trotting 

 interests of this countr}^ had been piloted by such as he, 

 there Avould have been more honest owners in the field 

 to-day, and the better part of our citizens would be 

 ready to encourage, rather than suspect, the motives 

 which prompt capital to invest in a pastime which, un- 

 fortunately, has been shamefully abused." 



L. E. M. 



