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Updated: July 29, 2025
'Then he has never had the pleasure of hunting in company with Miss Dacre. 'Do you indeed follow the hounds? asked the Duke. 'Sometimes do worse, ride over them; but Lord Faulconcourt is fast emancipating me from the trammels of my frippery foreign education, and I have no doubt that, in another season, I shall fling off quite in style. 'You remember Mr. Annesley? asked the Duke.
Are you frightened? Will you go on? Will you trust yourself with these savages? Try. They are rude, but they are hospitable. The party, we have said, were all persons of great consideration; some were noble, most were rich, all had ancestors. There were the Earl and Countess of Faulconcourt.
Dacre, like a deity in a Trojan battle, interposed, and asked his opinion of a keeper. 'I hope you are a sportsman, said Miss Dacre to the Duke, 'for this is the palace of Nimrod! 'I have hunted; it was not very disagreeable. I sometimes shoot; it is not very stupid. 'Then, in fact, I perceive that you are a heretic. Lord Faulconcourt, his Grace is moralising on the barbarity of the chase.
Lady Faulconcourt, art thou to be hailed as the unrivalled mother? Tis mystery all, as must always be the future of this world. We muse, we plan, we hope, but naught is certain but that which is naught; for, a question answered, a doubt satisfied, an end attained; what are they but fit companions for clothes out of fashion, cracked china, and broken fans?
'Lord Faulconcourt writes, said Mr. Dacre, 'that they expect only thirty-eight against us. 'Ah! that terrible House of Lords! said Miss Dacre. 'Let us see: when does it come on, the day after to-morrow? Scarcely forty-eight hours and all will be over, and we shall be just where we were. You and your friends manage very badly in your House, she added, addressing herself to the Duke.
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