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"Sir Everard, I don't know the meaning of that word 'fatigue. I never was tired in my life, and I am ready for the ball to-night, and a steeple-chase to-morrow." She tripped off as she spoke, with a mischievous glance. She wanted to shock him, and she succeeded. "Poor girl!" he thought, as he slowly turned homeward, "she is really dreadful.
But for the Granddiddle Junction, shire never would have had a steeple-chase an 'Aristocratic, at least for it is observable that the more snobbish a thing is, the more certain they are to call it aristocratic.
Sects rise and sects disappear. Where are the Fifth-Monarchy men? England is governed by Downing Street; once it was governed by Alfred and Elizabeth. About this time a steeple-chase in the West of England had attracted considerable attention. This sport was then of recent introduction in England, and is, in fact, an importation of Irish growth, although it has flourished in our soil.
It was, by Jove! "In those days I was a bit wild, I guess. I did not get out of school with much honor. I used to ride steeple-chase and hurdle races and dance all night. Sometimes, too, I had a scrap, and was careless about the money I spent. The old barrister his name was Jenvie believed I was the worst kid in the United Kingdom.
Races and race-balls, steeple-chases, and steeple-chase balls, hunts, and hunt-balls, took Howel, Netta, and his friends from place to place, and he and his horses soon became celebrated. The latter ran at all the races.
This being seen by the vicious Alcalde, who had built great hopes on the trench, he unslung his carbine, pulled up, and fired after the bonny black horse and its bonny fair riders. But this manoeuvre would have lost his worship any bet that he might have had depending on this admirable steeple-chase.
"Oh, HAVE you seen Pepper and Salt?" was almost the first question Nelly asked. "Well, I guess I have, and aren't they wonders? Oh, I'm so glad I saw them that day. Do you know they are to be entered in the horse-show and the steeple-chase this fall? Well, they are. Shelby has made them such beauties. But now tell me all about yourself.
Another advertised a steeple-chase in the centre of a good hunting country 'amateur and gentleman riders' with a half-crown ordinary at the end! Fancy the respectability of a steeple-chase, with a half-crown ordinary at the end! Our 'Aristocratic' was got up on the good-of-the-house principle.
The seventeenth Earl gallant and ardent, and in the prime of youth went forth one day from the Eternal City to a steeple-chase in the Campagna. A mutilated corpse was brought back to his hotel in the Piazza di Spagna. Death, alas! is no respecter of the Nobility. That shattered form was all that remained of the fiery, the haughty, the wild, but the generous Altamont de Pentonville!
It was a fine afternoon and a pretty walk; round the end of the Long Valley by Cocked Hat Wood, skirting the steeple-chase course; through shady lanes to the wild furze-clad common land; up the sides of the hill range, where the old Roman encampments can still be clearly traced. "This one looks precious modern," said Harry, doubtfully. "Oh, the engineers may have been digging about a bit.
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