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Updated: June 28, 2025
We shall have to christen you the 'Suffolk Stag, Beauchamp, enter you at Lillie Bridge, and keep on matching you at the Orleans Club, Hurlingham, and in the vicinity of the metropolis generally. There is only one thing puzzles me: while we were all talking pedestrianism the other evening, you never gave us a hint of your powers.
So motionless were they, on the sky, reproducing the Hurlingham colours far above the ground. A gentle breeze coming up from the river brought with it the odour of lilac and budding things. The chairs were crowded with a well-dressed throng, the larger majority of which seemed to be unaware that polo was the object of the afternoon.
But the reader is once more and finally disappointed. The bushranger has given his last messages, and is dying with some of the indifference to existence which has characterised him throughout the story. 'I say, Morringer, do you remember the last pigeon-match you and I shot in, at Hurlingham? 'Why, good God! says Sir Ferdinand, bending down, and looking into his face. 'It can't be!
His face was inexpressive, but she seemed to read there something which prompted her words. "I think that we must put off Hurlingham, if you do not mind," she said to Vandermere. "I ought to go and see the Comtesse." "It is very kind of you," Saton said slowly. "She will, I am sure, be glad to see you." Vandermere turned aside for a moment to exchange greetings with some acquaintances.
He, however, made no sign; and the bomb was thrown by his wife. It came in the shape of a card informing Mr. Strange that on a certain evening, a few weeks hence, Mrs. Martin would be at home, at her residence in Hurlingham. It was briefly indicated that there would be dancing, and he was requested to answer if he pleased.
Handsell has begun to talk to you now about London, of the theatres, the dressmakers, Hurlingham, Ranelagh, race meetings, society, and all that sort of rot. She talks of them very cleverly. She knows how to make the tinsel sparkle like real gold." She laughed softly. "You are positively eloquent, Richard," she declared. "Do go on!"
With a more or less intimate, though loosely formed, group like this my memory associates many small gatherings, which generally took the form of dinners, either at "Violet Fane's" own house in Grosvenor Place, or at Hurlingham, or at the "Star and Garter," or at Vyner's house among its gardens and woods at Combe, where we would linger, forgetful of time, and feeling no inclination to join any larger company.
There was a great military polo match for this particular Saturday Lancers against Dragoons. It was a lovely June afternoon, and Hurlingham would be at its best.
The cool greensward, the branching trees, the flowing river, would afford an unspeakable relief after the block of carriages in Bond Street and the heated air of London, where even the parks felt baked and arid; and to Hurlingham Lady Kirkbank drove directly after luncheon.
The fact that often he did not care did not mean that he did not know. He was no ignorant citizen, and in his acquaintance with Mrs. Chepstow his worldly knowledge did not forsake him. Clearly he understood how the average London man the man he met at his clubs, at Ranelagh, at Hurlingham would sum up any friendship between Mrs. Chepstow and himself. "Mrs. Chepstow's hooked poor old Armine!"
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