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and means of living honestly, not merely on the 

 score of inclination ; but it cannot be very pleasant 

 living a life of constant apprehension. So would 

 many of the characters of whom we are speak- 

 ing, run their horses honestly, if the practices 

 of the turf were such as they could live by so 

 doing. I mention this, that people unused to turf 

 transactions may not be led to paint the arch-fiend 

 himself blacker than he really is. Such men as 

 Lords Eglinton, Zetland, and many others would, 

 of course, run their horses under any circumstances 

 honourably, or they would not run them at all ; 

 but be it remembered, to such men, barring the 

 pleasure of seeing a horse of theirs win, the 

 stakes are frequently all but a matter of indiffer- 

 ence to them. Their position in life places 

 them, in a great measure, beyond the plots of 

 the black sheep of the turf, and their horses are 

 comparatively with those of many other persons, 

 safe. Now and then it turns out otherwise, but 

 where it does their means of investigation are 



