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Updated: May 15, 2025
Juliet did not really enjoy grouse-driving, but she tried to appear as if she did, since every one else seemed to, and at all events there were intervals between drives when she could be happy in the glory of the hills and the wild free air of the moors. Meanwhile she knelt in her corner of the butt beside her host's big retriever, and waited.
"We," as the soldiers explained to me, "could see nothing in our front but a lot of little heads popping up to fire and then popping down again." These shelters, a long line of them, are littered thick with empty cartridge cases, hundreds in each; one thinks involuntarily of grouse-driving. Bodies, still unburied, lay about when I was there. Such odours! such sights!
"Ungrateful wretch," he said "after that dinner last night!" "All the same, Matthew Arnold had that dinner in mind chef and all! Listen! 'The graver self of the Barbarian likes honours and consideration; his more relaxed self, field-sports and pleasures. Isn't it exact? Grouse-driving in the morning bridge, politics, Cabinet-making, and the best of food in the evening.
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