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Updated: May 28, 2025
It was Fitz's turn now that was all. The Sikh trooper was waiting for us in the middle of the square in the moonlight a grand picturesque figure. A long-faced, silent man, with deep eyes and a grizzled moustache. He wheeled his horse, and dropped ten paces in our rear. In the course of a varied experience Fitz and I had learnt to ride hard.
'Richmond, my hearty, where the deuce have you been? I wanted you to dine with me the other night. I replied, looking at him steadily, that I wished I had been there. 'Compendious larks! cried he, in the slang of his dog's day. 'I say; you're one at Duke Fitz's masquerade to-night? Tell us your toggery. Hang it, you might go for the Black Prince. I'm Prince Hal. Got a headache?
And in Fitz's diary, the discouraging state of the weather is still more pithily expressed: "August 2nd. Head wind sailing westward large hummocks of ice ahead, and on port bow, i.e. to the westward hope we may be able to push through.
There was first the Scheme, which had languished for weeks owing to the vise-like condition of the money market, another of Fitz's mendacious excuses, and which had now been suddenly galvanized into temporary life by an inquiry made by certain bankers who were seeking an outlet for English capital, and who had expressed a desire to investigate the "Garden Spot of Virginia."
"It was a lucky punch that put me out," he kept repeating, almost pathetically. "You know Fitz's lucky punch." I might have seen what was in the wind if I hadn't been thick-headed, what with the champagne and the rattles. "Boiler-plate" once started on the ring, it was an easy transition. "You've boxing gloves, haven't you, Jack?" asked Natica. "Get them for Mr. Hartopp.
Decent shoulders, and a nice long " Perhaps he caught Fanny Fitz's eye; at all events, he left the commendation unfinished, and went on, "I should like to look in and see the performance, if I may? I suppose you wouldn't let me try her first? No?" He walked on. "Puppy, will you stay quiet!" said Fanny Fitz very crossly.
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