2G A CLUB-ROOM. 



population,' count. A tobacco estate or a sugar plan- 

 tation is your true El Dorado now-a-days." 



*' Can he ride ?" asked Maglier. 



" He sits his hack well enough, and has got a nice 

 light hand. He talks modestly enough about it 

 though, and speaks of the wild Virginia bush-hunting 

 as a poor school for Leicestershire. But, on the whole, 

 I think he will go. He is a capital judge of horse- 

 flesh, and does not stand for prices. He is better 

 mounted than I am, and you know I give what I am 

 asked." 



"Yes! yes! Are you horsed by Tilbury this year, 

 or do you ride your own ?" 



"A little of both. I have twelve of my own and 

 eighteen of his. Mine are the best, though ; yet not 

 quite so good as Fairfax's." 



" We must call upon him, I suppose," said several 

 voices. 



" Certainly. Certainly. By what Matuschevitz says 

 he must be a trump." 



" Suppose you and he excuse a short notice, and 

 dine with me to-morrow," said Cheshire, on whom the 

 loss and prompt payment of the eight thousand had 

 made some impression. "I have a few friends of 

 yours, only half a dozen or so ; George Anson, Beau- 

 fort, Duncombe, Alick McDonald, Forester, and Al- 

 vanley. Lady Cheshire sees some people in the 

 evening, and it may amuse your friend as it is Sun- 

 day and a blank evening. Mention it to him, and I 

 will call upon him in the morning and do the formal. 

 What say you?" 



" Oh, for myself, that I shall be charmed. For 

 Fairfax, of course I can't answer ; but I am sure he 

 has no engagement, and I have no doubt he will be 

 delighted to make his debut under the auspices of 

 such Beaux 7/eux, as will shine upon him at your 

 table." 



