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You're a private, and I'm your riding-master." "Yes, but one minute, Lom " "Sergeant Lomax, sir." "Yes, Sergeant Lomax. I say, do let me have a saddle." "What for, sir?" "It's so much more comfortable." "A soldier, sir, is a man who scorns comfort and takes things as they come. You've got to learn to ride." "Of course. Then where's the saddle?"
His exceptional attainments, his manly bearing, his steady conduct, speedily won him promotion, which was furthered by the serious war in which this country was at that time engaged. On his return to England after the peace he had risen to the rank of riding-master, and was soon after advanced another stage, and made quartermaster, though still a young man.
He was an intelligent head-waiter, young, and of pleasant, not to say distinguished, bearing. In a frock coat he might easily have been mistaken for something even more important than a head-waiter for a German riding-master, a leader of a Hungarian band, a manager of a Ritz hotel. But he was not above his station.
Thus she had acquired the elements of the equestrian art, and incidentally aroused the enthusiasm of a riding-master. After Mrs. Chandos had smoked three of the cigarettes which her host specially imported from Egypt, she declared, with no superabundance of enthusiasm, that she was ready to go and see what Trixy had in the "stables."
When the tournament was ended, and we were hauled back to the river-side, the torero was not with us. Fortunate Sanchez! He had won his life! Henceforth he was to be riding-master to the Navajo nation! Another day came: our day for action.
His work was by no means light. He was at once sent into the riding-school, and he found it a very different thing to satisfy the riding-master and his sergeants than it had been to learn to sit a horse at home. However, his previous practice in that way rendered the work much easier for him than it would otherwise have been, and he was not very long in passing out from the squad of recruits.
Far away in one of the stately homes of "Merrie England," when the eighteenth century was old, a gentlewoman, young, charming, and full of an habitually repressed life and gaiety, waited for her cavalier, the youthful riding-master who had little to recommend himself to her gracious kindness save that deep but indefinable charm which a handsome man on a spirited charger is so prone to exert on the feminine imagination.
It appears quite a new era in the annals of horsemanship that an approved English riding-master should come over to France to place himself for two years under a French riding-master, yet such I know to be the case. Mr.
When they seem frightened or a little unsteady on my back, I go as smooth and as quiet as old pussy when she is after a bird; and when they are all right I go on again faster, you see, just to use them to it; so don't you trouble yourself preaching to me; I am the best friend and the best riding-master those children have.
'You shall know my business fast enough if you will kindly open. Without more ado she flung the door wide, and the ray of her lamp fell upon Mr Rattenbury, the young riding-officer, cloaked, high-booted, and spurred. 'A strange business it must be, sir, said the widow, 'that brings you hammering up sick folk at this time of night! 'Sick folk, eh? said the riding-master, with a brusque laugh.
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