He
thinks it therefore due to himself to state that he believes
there is not a trait in this work for which he has not the
authority of his own observation, or the authentic evidence
which has been received by Royal Commissions and Parliamentary
Committees. But while he hopes he has alleged nothing which
is not true, he has found the absolute necessity of
suppressing much that is genuine. For so little do we know of
the state of our own country that the air of improbability
that the whole truth would inevitably throw over these pages,
might deter many from their perusal.
Grosvenor-Gate,
May Day, 1845.
BOOK I
Book 1 Chapter 1
"I'll take the odds against Caravan."
"In poneys?"
"Done."
And Lord Milford, a young noble, entered in his book the bet
which he had just made with Mr Latour, a grey headed member of
the Jockey Club.
It was the eve of the Derby of 1837. In a vast and golden
saloon, that in its decorations would have become, and in its
splendour would not have disgraced, Versailles in the days of
the grand monarch, were assembled many whose hearts beat at
the thought of the morrow, and whose brains still laboured to
control its fortunes to their advantage.
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