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Updated: May 2, 2025
I did not think you were so business-like." "My dear fellow, it is quite time I thought about it; there are twenty odd thousand francs there." De Marsay, coming in to look up d'Esgrignon for a steeplechase, produced a dainty little pocket-book, took out twenty thousand francs, and handed them to him.
A man of ideals, and extremely tenacious, objets d'art and steeplechase horses had been his twin passions from his childhood. He collected both with a judgment amounting to genius. And there were few experts in either kind who were not prepared to acknowledge him their master.
Since last we met I have bought a house and set up an establishment in London, and I have also had the good fortune to be entered for the Gentleman's Steeplechase on the fifteenth." The Preacher. "You are rich, young sir?" Barnabas. "And I hope to be famous also." The Preacher. "Then indeed do I begin to tremble for you." "Why so?" The Preacher.
There was no time for more words, for the party which had remained in hiding till we had passed were closing in fast; and then a couple of young men suddenly darted out from those in front, set spurs to their horses, and seemed to race at us, leaping the stones in their way steeplechase fashion.
I can't say that I've got a safe start at all, even with her, and I've certainly got some distance to go before I can put the prince out of the running. You may think this is a nice, easy, straightaway race, but it isn't. It's going to be a steeplechase, and I don't know the course. I'm looking for a wide ditch at any turn, and I may get a nasty fall.
Next to riding home first in a steeplechase I'd like to have the running of a lightning express. Used to do the former once, but now Fate she says to me, 'You stop right there in Winnipeg, and sell other men's cattle for the best price you can. Lorimer, I think Number Forty has saved that stock for you."
He goes out, in a skiff, or a pair, or a four-oar, or to a steeplechase through the hedges when Oxford, as in our illustration, is under water. The illustration represents Merton, and the writer recognises his old rooms, with the Venetian blinds which Mr. Ruskin denounced.
Suddenly Houghton started; an enigmatical smile passed across his face. "Alice," said he, "did you mean what you said about the steeplechase I mean about the ride down the White Bluff road?" "I meant all I said," was her bitter reply. "You think life is a mistake?" he rejoined. "I think we have made a mistake," was her answer; "a deadly mistake, and it lasts all our lives."
"If I am eligible, and Lady Grace chooses, it seems to me very simple." "But," the Duke intervened, "I did not know we did not know that you were a sportsman, Prince." "A sportsman?" the Prince repeated a little doubtfully. "Perhaps I am not that according to your point of view, but when it comes to a question of riding, why, that is easy enough." "Have you ever ridden in a steeplechase?"
I could hardly do less. I told Robert he might give her to the hounds, but he sent her over to me in a couple of months as good as new, and I won the regimental steeplechase cup with her last April. Captain "Pat" Naylor, of the th Dragoons, had the influenza. For three days he had lain prostrate, a sodden and aching victim to the universal leveller, and an intolerable nuisance to his wife.
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