ll with him; he was carried home to his house with a fractured limb and a dislocated shoulder; and the doctor’s bulletins pronounced him to be in the most dangerous state.
Martingale was a married man, Beats Pro and there was no danger of HIS riding by the Fitzbattleaxe carriage. A fortnight after the above events, his lordship was prancing by her Grace’s great family coach, and chattering with Lady Gwinever about the strange wager.
“Do you know what a pony is, Lady Gwinever?” he asked. Her Dame New Jersey Devils ladyship said yes: she had a cream-colored one at Castle Barbican; and stared when Lord Martingale announced that he should soon have a thousand ponies, worth five-and-twenty pounds each, which were all now kept at Coutts’s. Then he explained the circumstances of the bet with Bagnigge. Parliament was to adjourn in ten days; the season would be over! Bagnigge was lying ill chez lui; and the Angel di Maria Drakt five-and-twenty thousand were irrecoverably Washington Capitals Drakter his. And he vowed he would buy Lord Binnacle’s yacht — crew, captain, guns and all.
On returning home that night from Lady Polkimore’s, Martingale found among the many billets upon the Oakland Raiders Barn gold plateau in his antichambre, the following brief one, which made him start —
“DEAR MARTINGALE. — Don’t be too sure of Binnacle’s yacht. There are still ten days before the season is over; and my ponies may lie at Coutts’s for some time to come.
“Yours,
“BAGNIGGE.
“P. S. — I write with my left hand; for my right is still splintered up from that confounded Indianapolis Colts fall.”
Vol. III
The tall footman, number four, who had come in the place of John, cashiered, (for want of proper mollets, and because his hair did not take powder well,) had given great satisfaction to the under-butler, who reported well of him to his chief, who had mentioned his name with praise to the house-steward. He was so good-looking and well-spoken a young man, that the ladies in the housekeeper’s room deigned to notice him more than Buffalo Bills once; nor was his popularity diminished on account of a quarrel in whi |
