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Club rooms (arrayed in the green cutaway coat, 

 doeskin breeches, and top-boots which he habitually 

 wore at Newmarket), when Mr Osbaldeston saw 

 and approached him. " My Lord," he exclaimed, 

 somewhat curtly, " you have had plenty of time to 

 digest your loss. May I ask you for the £200 

 which I won from you at Heaton Park ? " Draw- 

 ing himself up to his full height, and towering over 

 his puny interpellator, Lord George retorted " that 

 he was astonished to be asked for the money, as 

 the whole affair was a robbery, and so the Jockey 

 Club considered it." Nothing daunted, Mr Osbal- 

 deston answered firmly, " I won the money fairly, 

 and I insist uj)on its payment." " Can you count ?" 

 sneeringly asked Lord George, as he dived into the 

 inside pocket of his coat, and pulled out a long 

 black-leather case, which he always carried stuffed 

 with bank-notes. " I could at Eton," shar23ly re- 

 plied the Squire ; and the specified sum was slowly 

 told out into his hand in small notes. " The matter 

 will not end here, my Lord," exclaimed the Squire, 

 as he marched off with his bristles set. Within 

 a few minutes Mr Humphrey approached Lord 

 George, and, lifting his hat, demanded, on the 

 Squire's behalf, an ample apology, or that Lord 

 George should at once give satisfaction to the 

 man whom he had so grossly insulted. Lord 

 George loftily declined to meet Mr Osbaldeston 

 in the field ; and upon receiving this disdainful 

 answer, the latter said, " Tell Lord George that 



