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"I'll warrant there wouldn't be a better horse-woman or a prettier girl there," cried Rorie, scarlet with indignation. His mother looked daggers. His cousin gave another silvery laugh, clear as those pearly treble runs upon the Erard; but that pretty artificial laugh had a ring which betrayed her mortification. "Rorie is thorough," she said; "when he likes people he thinks them perfection.
The Duchess shook hers, and then they both began to talk of an engagement announced that morning in the Times. Mrs. Fairmile was soon riding alone, without a groom she was an excellent horse-woman, and she never gave any unnecessary trouble to her friends' servants through country lanes chequered with pale sun. As for the Duchess's attack upon her, Chloe smarted.
It's a wonder you didn't come off yourself, for though you're a devil to go, you know as well as I do you're a poor horse-woman." He was violently angry, partly at Mildred's ignorant rashness, partly because, after all, she had beaten him.
His rider as I have said, was not a very good horse-woman, and she now took hold of the horn of the saddle with her right hand, to enable her to keep her seat; and tried to moderate the gait of the horse with the reins and the voice, abandoning all further resistance to his will as useless.
She had clean blood in her veins, she was good-looking, she had a quick wit, she was an excellent horse-woman what then? If she wasn't so "well bred," that was a matter of training and opportunity which had never quite been hers. What was he himself? A loafer, "a deuced unfortunate loafer," but still a loafer. He had no trade and no profession.
The performance was begun by the usual dirty white horse, that was brought out and set to gallop round, with a gaudy horse-woman on his back, who jumped through a hoop and did the ordinary feats, the horse's hoofs splashing and possing all the time in the green slush of the ring.
How many of the thousands of women, who years ago wore the large, flaring back, felt hat, knew they were following the whim of a woman known to the half-world as Cora Pearl? Not pretty, but of a very beautiful figure, and English by birth, she was, one might say, of course, a good horse-woman.
"Yes, miss," she said submissively. "You and Miss Molly are dining out. I won't forget." Selwyn's pony had rarely before found himself hustled along at the pace at which Sara drove him. She let him take his time up the hills, knowing, as every good horse-woman knows, that if you press your horse against the hill, he will only flag the sooner and that you will lose more than you gain.
It was in the winter time, and, of course, there were then no trains to carry people swiftly and comfortably through the frosty air. So she started on her journey from Scotland on horseback, and rode as far as Newcastle; but she was not a great horse-woman, and being wearied with her exertions, she there took a coach and proceeded to York, taking with her her faithful maid Evans.
She was a good horse-woman, and even Rachel had been accustomed to the saddle in former years. I wrung my friend's hand. "You will take care of my sister, I know you will," I said as I parted from him. "Indeed, Ralph, I will," he answered solemnly; and I felt that she was as safe as she would have been had I accompanied her.
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