28 PRECEPT AXD PEACTICE. 



*' threes to the right," or some other derisive expres- 

 sion. 



Some, on seeing the kind of nag he drove, were 

 inchned to set him down as some German baron or 

 chevalier d'industrie, or both combined ; but reflect- 

 ing that foreigners nowadays know good horses when 

 they see them, and possess themselves of really fine 

 animals, they came to the conclusion that he was 

 the hopeful son of some undertaker. And they saw 

 he was an undertaker of what he had not the judg- 

 ment or taste to do properly — a fact of which he 

 had at length become convinced himself. 



This could not, or, at all events, he determined 

 it should not, go on ; to spend his money, and, 

 instead of exciting admiration, getting nothing but 

 ridicule for his outlay, was not to be borne. True, 

 he had created a sensation ; and as Bolingbroke, 

 when he made his appearance, " like a comet, he was 

 wondered at." But unlike him, he was not gratified 

 by hearing people inquire — '* Which, which is Boling- 

 broke V He had heard some military men say to 

 any who did not know him, "Oh, it's young 'Alex- 



