The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 by George Meredith
page 65 of 113 (57%)
page 65 of 113 (57%)
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'Money's Bank of England to-day, you think?' he interposed, and had his answer after Mallard had said: 'The girl 's rather good-looking, too.' 'You may double your bets, Chummy. I had the fellow to his tea at my dinner-table yesterday evening; locked him in his bedroom, and had him up and out for a morning spin at six. His trainer, Flipper's on the field, drove from Esslemont at nine, confident as trumps.' 'Deuce of a good-looking girl,' Potts could now afford to say; and he sang out: 'Feel fit, lucky dog?' 'Concert pitch!' was the declaration of Kit Ives. 'How about Lord Brailstone's man?' 'Female partner in a quadrille, sir.' 'Ah!' Potts doated on his limbs with a butcher's eye for prize joints. 'Cock-sure has crowed low by sunset,' Mallard observed. Fleetwood offered him to take his bets. 'You're heavy on it with Brailstone?' said Mallard. 'Three thousand.' |
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