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I remained silent. "Perhaps he is off to London, though?" I pretended to be busy with my coffee. "Best pheasant-shoot in the county, and a close borough under the old régime. Hope he will be more neighborly Er suppose he must shoot 'em before November?" I buttered my toast. Then the "burrrrs" began. I wonder he does not have a noise that ends with d n simply. It would save him time.
As she trifled with this thing or that, or sipped a little wine, she said, "Jim, I know what the dream of your life is it's to go to a big pheasant-shoot." "Oh, is it?" he said, with the scorn born of superior knowledge. "Not much. I've tried my hand at pheasants. I know what they are.
The English country gentleman who now holds something the same position socially as the knight, is not a sportsman till he can use the breechloader with terrible effect at the pheasant-shoot, till he can wield the salmon-rod, or ride better than any Persian. Never were people people in the widest sense fonder of horses and dogs, and every kind of animal, than at the present day.
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