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Identifier: manofpleasure01nevi (find matches)
Title: The man of pleasure
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Nevill, Ralph, 1865-1930
Subjects: Characters and characteristics
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ng inthe country, dissipation in town, then occupiedthe time of most wealthy young fellows, to theentire exclusion of all serious considerations. It is,however, only fair to remember, that they were thenseriously handicapped by the absurd prejudice whichexisted against a gentleman going into business. The life of a man-about-town in the early part ofthe nineteenth century was about as useless andfutile as it is possible to conceive. On the otherhand, it must be remembered that many a buckfought gallantly for his country in Wellingtonscampaigns. Perhaps the reaction from his usualidle round made him bear with the greaterequanimity the hardships of a soldiers professionand the dangers of the battle-field. The London life of a young man of fashion about1800 does not seem to have been very enlivening.He rose about ten in the morning, and havingtaken a slight breakfast, put on his riding-coatand repaired to his stables. Having inspected hishorses, asked a thousand questions of his coachman
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HIS DAILY ROUND 89 and grooms, and given as many orders, he eitherrode on horseback or in his curricle, attended bytwo grooms, dashing through all the fashionablestreets into Hyde Park. If, however, the weatherwas unfavourable, he took his chariot, and visitedthe shops of the most noted coachmakers andsaddlers, who never failed to receive him with pro-found respect. After ordering something orother, he next repaired to Tattersalls, where hemet his friends seriously engaged in studying thepedigree or merits of horses, or in discussing theinvaluable properties of a pointer, setter, greyhound,or other sporting animal. He then drove from one exhibition to another,looked in at the caricature shops, and, about three,went to a fashionable hotel; there he took hislunch, read the papers, arranged his parties for theevening, and at five strolled home to find hisclothes laid out and his valet waiting. He lookedat the cards which had been left for him in thecourse of the morning, and gave his ord

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