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SYBIL,
OR THE
TWO NATIONS.
BOOK I.
Chapter I.
"I'll take the odds against Caravan."
"In poneys?"
"Done."
And Lord Milford, a young noble, entered in his book the bet which he had just made with Mr. Latour, a grey-headed member of the Jockey Club.
It was the eve of the Derby of 1837. In a vast and golden saloon, that in its decorations would have become, and in its splendour would not have disgraced, Versailles in the days of
vol. i.
B
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