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Then one morning, as we were at breakfast, a great big splendid Manton car my car came whisking up the drive and stopped in front of the house, and the expert they had thrown him in for a week for nothing him and an odometer and an ammeter, and a new kind of French spark-plug they wanted me to try and a gasoline tester the Mantons are such nice people to deal with in all those little ways and the expert sent in word: would Miss Hardy come out and see her new car?
"It stands to reason," said he to himself, "that a man who has been actually paid by the King's Government for shooting people ever since he was a little boy in a midshipman's jacket, must be a dead hand at the job. I should not mind if it was with double-barrelled Mantons and small shot; but ball and pistol, they are n't human nor sportsmanlike!"
This digression is meant to signify, that I never joined the single men and double Mantons that went in and off among Sir Lionel Garrett's preserves. I used, instead, to take long walks by myself, and found, like virtue, my own reward, in the additional health and strength these diurnal exertions produced me. One morning, chance threw into my way une bonne fortune, which I took care to improve.
Learned, however, from one of the officers of Her Majesty's brig "Contest," who had been stationed here some time, that the climate is delightful to those who are able to withstand the cold of the winters; that the features of the country have not been misstated, but are equal to any representation made; that game is at all times abundant, especially in autumn, when fine sport is to be obtained by those who handle "mantons" with even moderate skill; furthermore, the followers of quaint old Isaac, the ancient angler, need but a tithe of his art to tempt the piscatory tribe from their native element.
This digression is meant to signify, that I never joined the single men and double Mantons that went in and off among Sir Lionel Garrett's preserves. I used, instead, to take long walks by myself, and found, like virtue, my own reward, in the additional health and strength these diurnal exertions produced me. One morning, chance threw into my way une bonne fortune, which I took care to improve.
At the time of which I am about to speak, it was very full, containing, among others, many young men. The times are no more when persons of nineteen and twenty suffered themselves to be horsed, and took their one and two dozen with edification and humility. At this age we now cultivate moustaches, talk of our Joe Mantons, send a friend to demand an explanation, and all that sort of thing.
Shove t'other blackie a head of you, Pegtop, will you? Confound you for forgetting my Mantons, you villain. I will bring up the rear." "Well, I will get on," said I. "but here, give me a pistol."
Alas! what a sorry exchange from their society to that of the Mantons, and from all the loving care that had been bestowed upon her and the many privileges accorded her at Ion and Viamede, to the neglect and indifference to be expected from strangers! As she thought of all this she could not contemplate the carrying out of her sentence of banishment to Oakdale with anything like satisfaction.
By 1835 the old Spanish Pointer had been left behind, and the English dog was a perfect model for pace, stamina, resolution, and nerve. The breed was exactly adapted to the requirements of that day, which was not quite as fast as the present. Men shot with good Joe Mantons, did their own loading, and walked to their dogs, working them right and left by hand and whistle.
Lulu said, half in assertion, half in inquiry. "Of course; but the Mantons don't pay our doctor bills, or support us in invalidism if it comes to that." The girl walked away, and Lulu stood leaning against a pillar, lost in thought, and feeling more homesick than ever.
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