1 82 Life and Times of " The Druid." 



seasons had passed by since he first came, a 

 lad of nineteen, fresh from Eton to New- 

 market, and he left it a shattered man, only 

 to die. Some time he spent at Folkestone, 

 and visited town for a few days before he set 

 out for a winter sojourn with his wife on the 

 Nile. A few friends dared to hope that he 

 might come back a new man and live quietly 

 in his old country home, and train foals by 

 The Duke and Lecturer. It was not to be. 

 'All the wheels were down,' and now the 

 fourth and last Marquis of Hastings lives 

 only in race-course story." 



