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There is a certain piquancy in these adventures which affords us much delight so true is it that the deprivation of a pleasure enhances its value. In the morning Kondjé-Gul takes riding-lessons in the Bois with Maud and Suzannah, who are accompanied by their father. I sometimes take a canter that way, in order to watch their party ride by.
Felicia, when the thing was settled, danced about Victoria's room, kissed her mother and ran off at once, with Victoria's permission, to ask the old coachman who ruled the Duddon stables to give her riding-lessons. Victoria noticed that she carefully avoided consulting Tatham in any way about her lessons.
The world had received a hint that they would live together like brother and sister, and the world awaited with a malicious grin the result of the great reform which should put matrimony on another basis altogether. The newly married couple went abroad. When they returned, the young wife was pale and ill-tempered. She began at once to take riding-lessons. The world scented mischief and waited.
"And you are, and the Chancellor. And I am, of course." He stood the boy on the desk. "Do you think she is in love, with you?" demanded the Crown Prince, very seriously. "Not a bit of it, young man!" "But I think she is," he persisted. "She's always around when you are." "Not this morning." "But she is, when she can be. She never used to take riding-lessons. She doesn't need them."
But just then a captain of the dragoons offered to teach me for a very low fee, and in the Queen's Riding-School I was initiated during the Spring months into the elementary stages of the art, in order that in Summer I might be able to ride out. These riding-lessons were the keenest possible delight to me.
It was not pleasant to retire from drill, riding remounts, giving riding-lessons, and leading a line in driving exercises all that had been so much after his own heart. And this eternal scribbling would be altogether against the grain. If only he had a clever clerk, like Blechschmidt of the fifth battery, who did not over-exert himself!
He was a well-shaped dark brown animal, with long mane and tail, but, as I knew him, always lean and old- looking, and the chief use he was put to was for the children to take their first riding-lessons on his back. My parents had already experienced one great sadness on account of Zango before his strange death.
Thus Protestant grooms were forbidden to give riding-lessons; Protestant barbers were forbidden to cut hair; Protestant washerwomen were forbidden to wash clothes; Protestant servants were forbidden to serve either Roman Catholic or Protestant mistresses. They must all be "converted."
He very soon proved to us that he understood children as well as sheep; at all events he would allow them to tease and pull him about most unmercifully, and actually appeared to enjoy it. Our first riding-lessons were taken on his back; but old Pechicho eventually made one mistake, after which he was relieved from the labour of carrying us.
Bob up and down in all the secluded corners of the house; try to feel the motion in the horse-cars it will not need much effort in many of them. And if you want to be comfortable in a herdic, sit sidewise and pretend that the seat is a horse. This is Mr. Hurlburt's rule for riding in an Irish "outside car." In short, while taking your first riding-lessons, walk, sit, and think to the tune of
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