Now it is
neck and neck between Caravan and Phosphorus. At the stand
Caravan has decidedly the best, but just at the post, Edwards,
on Phosphorus, lifts the gallant little horse, and with an
extraordinary effort contrives to shove him in by half a
length.
"You look a little low, Charley," said Lord Fitzheron, as
taking their lunch in their drag he poured the champagne into
the glass of Egremont.
"By Jove!" said Lord Milford, "Only think of Cockie Graves
having gone and done it!"
Book 1 Chapter 3
Egremont was the younger brother of an English earl, whose
nobility being of nearly three centuries' date, ranked him
among our high and ancient peers, although its origin was more
memorable than illustrious. The founder of the family had
been a confidential domestic of one of the favourites of Henry
the Eighth, and had contrived to be appointed one of the
commissioners for "visiting and taking the surrenders of
divers religious houses." It came to pass that divers of
these religious houses surrendered themselves eventually to
the use and benefit of honest Baldwin Greymount. The king was
touched with the activity and zeal of his commissioner. Not
one of them whose reports were so ample and satisfactory, who
could baffle a wily prior with more dexterity, or control a
proud abbot with more firmness.
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