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the Duchess of Queensberry. But he who hardly made 

 little difference, if any, in his sporting, racing, or other 

 amusements on the death of his mother, would 

 scarcely do so on the death of a not too well-beloved 

 cousin. Lord March allowed no conventional ideas 

 of mourning to trouble or interfere with his pursuits. 



The results in stakes of his lordship's thirteen 

 winning brackets ^ this year were about two thousand 

 six himdred pounds. This sum he no doubt fructified 

 by judicious bets, on his own or others' horses. 



Lord March at this period was very near the ducal 

 goal, as the relative he hoped to succeed was then in 

 his eightieth year, and since his Duchess's death had 

 been in indifferent health. No wonder, then, I find 

 through one of Selwyn's numerous correspondents 

 information that his friend ' M. and R.' was in better 

 health and spirits ' than he remembers to have seen 

 him for some time ' ; adding, ' his lordship gener- 

 ally dines with the Duke of Queensberry,' a con- 

 descension that ' my dear Lord Duke ' must have 

 been proud of. 



His lordship had not long to bore himself with 

 his benevolent cousin's society, as that worthy noble- 

 man was gathered to his fathers on October 22nd, 

 1778, when the Earl of March and Rugien succeeded 



^ Racing Analysis. 



