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Updated: June 6, 2025
"What is exciting him?" asked his mistress, as the dog suddenly broke into short angry barks, with a running accompaniment of tremulous whines. "Why," she continued, "it's your gamebag, Vladimir! What HAVE you got in it?" "By Gad," said the Major, who was now standing up; "there's a pretty warm scent!" And then a simultaneous idea flashed on himself and Mrs. Hoopington.
Against his notorious bad temper she set his three thousand a year, and his prospective succession to a baronetcy gave a casting vote in his favour. The Major's plans on the subject of matrimony were not at present in such an advanced stage as Mrs. Hoopington's, but he was beginning to find his way over to Hoopington Hall with a frequency that was already being commented on.
Hoopington to her niece. "He's just gone round to the stables with his horse. Be as bright and lively as you can; the poor man's got a fit of the glooms." Major Pallaby was a victim of circumstances, over which he had no control, and of his temper, over which he had very little.
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