10S LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. 



To which, in his mincing, half-ironical, half-sincere 

 way, his lordship replied : 



' Thank you, Mr. Scott ; thank you very much.' 



Lord George, indeed, seemed rather fond of betting 

 with trainers and jockeys, and for large sums, about 

 horses of which he had the control ; and, like the 

 young lady, was easily led for good or for evil. 

 Nevertheless, it should, in justice to him, be frankly 

 admitted that he was always most anxious for their 

 welfare. To keep them untainted from the world 

 and betting was his chief aim and greatest delight. 

 Wagering, he would truly and sympathetically tell 

 them, is a temptation the pernicious effects of which 

 few are able to withstand ; and he would in other 

 ways and more forcible terms impress upon them 

 the danger of indulging in the practice. The instances 

 in which he won a few thousands from my father and 

 from Mr. William Scott in the manner I have related, 

 are the only exceptions to this valuable and excellent 

 precept that I ever heard of his lordship's making ; 

 and that he considered them exceptions we may judge 

 from the fact that, when taking the money, he did 

 not think it necessary to give them gratuitously a 

 moral lecture on the enormity of the offence they had 

 committed. 



On one occasion his lordship was not altogether 

 pleased with myself. Before his horses were re- 

 moved to Goodwood, Ratsbane ran for and won 

 the Brighton Stakes in a thick fog. But, on return- 



