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have compared games of chance very much after 

 the conduct of the average racehorse, ' Win to-day, 

 lose to-morrow,' or vice versd. Therefore, whether 

 at the board of green cloth or in the betting ring, 

 he seems to have always seen these talismanic words 

 before him, ' Sufficient unto the day, etc' Prudence, 

 always prudence, was the maxim with which he 

 tempered the motto of his house, afterwards reduced 

 to one plain Anglo-Saxon word — ' Forward/ 



The next letter March addresses from Ware,i where 

 he had stayed the night ; but whether in the ' great 

 bed ' is not recorded. This communication is typical 

 of his lordship's clear, sound sense, as, after congra- 

 tulating ' George ' on obtaining from Lord Orford ^ 

 (waiting only his Majesty's consent) a villa in the 

 Green Park, he gives Selwyn counsel on matters 

 sorely vexing his ' dear George,' to whom he gives 

 this sensible advice : ' Pray do not plague your- 

 self about imaginary evils. It is time enough when 

 they really happen.' Which George's mother- wit 

 could not gainsay. 



Whatever was the relation, if any, that existed 

 between March, Selwyn, and the Marchesa Fagniani, 

 one indisputable action, which was asserted to have 

 been done with the purest motive, was sufficient in 



^ Appendix A 2. ^ Ranger of St. James's and Hyde Parks. 



