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Now, no charming woman would clap on all sail in jewels for a roomful of fox-hunters." "It depends what jewels she has." "Well, she might wear her rope of pearls." "I should have said so." "And, of course, her rings." "Exactly, Bunny." "But not necessarily her diamond tiara " "Has she got one?" " and certainly not her emerald and diamond necklace on top of all!"
But both Wycherley and Cromwell were wits and men of education, and it is not difficult to pardon that morbid, over-active mind for occasional vagrancy in its efforts after some congenial escape from the Tory fox-hunters of Berkshire and the ribald drinking songs of Durfey.
In Northumberland Forster and Derwentwater, with some Catholic fox-hunters, in Galloway the pacific Viscount Kenmure, cruised vaguely about and joined forces.
The fox-hunters, perceiving his disaster, exclaimed, in the phrase and accent of the chase, "Stole away! stole away!" and with hideous vociferation, joined in the sylvan chorus which the hunters halloo when the hounds are at fault. The disaster of Mr.
The huntsman, who was not far off, running towards the squire, bestowed upon his head such a memento with his pole, as made the landscape dance before his eyes; and, in a twinkling he was surrounded by all the fox-hunters, who plied their whips about his ears with infinite agility.
Like a great many fox-hunters, he was very sharp as long as he was in his own country; but as soon as they get out of it they lose their heads; and so the lobster, so to speak, lost his tail. Tom reached and clawed down the hole after him, till he caught hold of him; and then, as was to be expected, the clumsy lobster pulled him in head foremost. "Hullo! here is a pretty business," said Tom.
We did not bother to dress up much for the hunting expedition just cocked hats and lath swords; and we tied a card on to H. O.'s chest with 'Moat House Fox-Hunters' on it; and we tied red flannel round all the dogs' necks to show they were fox-hounds.
"How different was the spirit of Emerson's old verse," I said: "Hast thou named all the birds without a gun? Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk?... O be my friend, and teach me to be thine!" "That is one of my mottoes!" cried my companion with evident pleasure. "Let us go and quote it to our fox-hunters!" "I wonder how the fox is getting on," I said.
Yet so great was Gawtrey's vigour of health, that, after draining wine and spirits enough to have despatched a company of fox-hunters, and after betraying, sometimes in uproarious glee, sometimes in maudlin self-bewailings, that he himself was not quite invulnerable to the thyrsus of the god, he would on any call on his energies, or especially before departing on those mysterious expeditions which kept him from home half, and sometimes all, the night plunge his head into cold water drink as much of the lymph as a groom would have shuddered to bestow on a horse close his eyes in a doze for half an hour, and wake, cool, sober, and collected, as if he had lived according to the precepts of Socrates or Cornaro!
Not that I would insinuate that the legislature wants a supply of many gentlemen in the sea-service; but, as these gentlemen are by their attendance in the house unfortunately prevented from ever going to sea, and there learning what they might communicate to their landed brethren, these latter remain as ignorant in that branch of knowledge as they would be if none but courtiers and fox-hunters had been elected into parliament, without a single fish among them.
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