LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



as possible.' But his lordship's dignified reply was, 

 though curt, to the purpose. 



' No, sir,' he said ; ' men have no business to bet 

 that have not the means to pay if they lose, and at 

 the proper time, punctually ; and unless you do so at 

 once, I shall proclaim and denounce you as a de- 

 faulter.' 



I believe that in this case Lord George, for the 

 good of the turf, of which he was the great etiological 

 exponent, pursued the best possible plan in order to 

 keep it free from defaulters — and, which of course was 

 a mere bagatelle in his eyes, of getting his own money. 

 He knew Glen stood well with the ring, and had a 

 good business ; that to be a defaulter in the one, or to 

 lose the other, would be his ruin ; and that rather than 

 either disastrous event should happen, he would, in 

 some way or other, find the money and pay the debt. 

 This expected result, however, did not come off. We 

 are told that after the solemn words of admonition 

 fell from his lordship's lips, Glen, in uttering the 

 words ' Impossible, my lord,' gave an audible porten- 

 tous coarse sort of sigh or sob, which, like yawning, 

 proved catching. For at the very moment of his 

 expressing his inability to pay, his lordship became 

 — like his horse — a gaper, and ' gave a sort of superb 

 groan,' an involuntary expression of which Mr. Disraeli 

 may have been thinking when he made use of the 

 same words. But a disappointment of the kind could 

 not, any more than other annoyances, be brooked by so 



