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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nch peoples heads, and then heal theirwounds by the timely application of bank-notes. Milord Arsouille, as he was nicknamed, was alsoreputed to be fond of organizing unrestrainedparties of pleasure; in reality, however, the majorityof the extraordinary stories told about him werepurely imaginary, his whole energies being con-centrated upon sport. Boxing, racing, and driving were his hobbies. Hecould not bear to be distanced by anyone, and onone occasion, when he had had the audacity to raceand pass the carriage of Charles X, he was onlysaved from being expelled from France owing tovery powerful influence being exercised on hisbehalf. He won a remarkable bet against an Englishmannamed Embury, well known for his feats of driving.This was the exactly following in a brake with fourhorses the turns and circles made by the latter in aone-horse chaise. So exactly did Lord Henry per-form this difficult task that his wheels passed rightover the track formed by those of his opponentscarriage. %
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A SMART TURN-OUT. LORD HENRY SEYMOUR 199 Though most of the stories of his escapades wereinventions, he was undoubtedly consumed by aninsatiable passion to be first in everything he under-took. It is said that he even took the greatestpains to master some grammatical curiosities of theFrench language in order to be able to win betsabout the orthography of certain expressions andwords. As a whip he was always wanting to passeverybody ; he is said to have spent over 100,000francs in trotting-horses in order to be able todistance a particularly fast team, which he oftenmet and never could beat. Though a charitable man, his ear was seldomopen to the numerous appeals which reached it.He liked to select the objects of his bounty himself.A beggar covered with nothing but rags, whochanced to cross his path, or some poor girl en-countered upon the boulevard, had a pretty goodchance of obtaining relief. His name, however,seldom figured on fashionable subscriptions forcharities. Meeting a misera

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