2i 4 MEN OF MY TIME. 



he was on a visit to his constituents for electioneering 

 purposes. He patronized the race-meetings at Salis- 

 bury, Stockbridge, and Blandford — until the latter 

 races were abandoned — and Southampton. Soon after 

 the death of my father, he removed his horses to 

 Littleton at the request of Ward, his polite and 

 spoiled old pad-groom, who thought probably that 

 there he should know more of them, and perhaps 

 make more out of them, than he did at Danebury. 

 But I don't think the result answered his expecta- 

 tions, for they did but little good after leaving their 

 old quarters. 



Lord Palmerston was abstemious in his eating and 

 drinking. A glass or two of sherry at dinner was 

 all that he generally partook of. When the dessert 

 came on the table, he would retire to his library or 

 study, leaving her ladyship to do the honours of the 

 table. He read or wrote from ten o'clock at night 

 until two o'clock in the morning, standing at a high 

 desk, as he thought such a position preferable, for the 

 sake of his health, to leaning over a low one. He 

 rose early, and in the country breakfasted at nine 

 o'clock, reading before doing so. He was fond of 

 many sports, though he seldom indulged in any 

 except racing. He was extremely proud and vain 

 of his person, which possibly gained him the sobri- 

 quet of ' Cupid.' He considered himself, and indeed 

 was, a thorough ladies' man, and only married late in 

 life. 



