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Being a country girl, and a good, not to say a wild, horsewoman, it had been her delight to canter, without the ghost of an attendant, over the fourteen or sixteen miles of hard road intervening between their home and the station at St. Launce's, put up the horse, and go on the remainder of the distance by train, returning in the same manner in the evening.
The last great domestic embarrassment at Montacute had been the affair of the cooks. Lord Eskdale had taken this upon his own shoulders, and, writing to Daubuz, had sent down Leander and his friends to open the minds and charm the palates of the north. Lord Valentine and his noble parents, and their daughter, Lady Florentina, who was a great horsewoman, also arrived.
Rodney talked very much of Endymion's mother; her wondrous beauty, her more wondrous dresses; the splendour of her fetes and equipages. As she dilated on the past, she seemed to share its lustre and its triumphs. "The first of the land were always in attendance on her," and for Mrs. Rodney's part, she never saw a real horsewoman since her dear lady.
"But why talk? It's too easy, and it's mighty cheap anyway. But Nan was pointing out of the window. She welcomed a sudden diversion. "It's Elvine coming right along over." Then, as Jeff craned forward: "Say, she's a dandy horsewoman. Get a look at her. Gracious, she might have been born in the saddle." But Jeff had not waited. He was out on the veranda to greet his wife as she came.
I have made up my mind that I ought not to be a perfect horsewoman, and so I should never correspond to your pattern of a lady." Dorothea looked straight before her, and spoke with cold brusquerie, very much with the air of a handsome boy, in amusing contrast with the solicitous amiability of her admirer. "I should like to know your reasons for this cruel resolution.
Distress and Discontent pervade France. Goldsmith predicts a Revolution. Apathy of the King. The Aunts mislead Marie Antoinette. Maria Teresa hears that the Dauphiness neglects her German Visitors. Marriage of the Count de Provence. Growing Preference of Louis XV. for the Dauphiness. The Dauphiness applies herself to Study. Marie Antoinette becomes a Horsewoman. Her Kindness to all beneath her.
Besides, gates are often in such positions, as regards taking off and landing, that it would be impossible to fly them safely, even if the way were clear of hunting companions, which is seldom the case in large fields. Every horsewoman should remember that nothing is more apt to spoil a horse than allowing a brace of alternative ideas to occupy his mind at the same time.
"I haven't done any riding since I left Simla. I didn't care to alone." "Ah! Lady Bassett rides, doesn't she? She is an accomplished horsewoman, I believe?" "I don't know," Muriel's reply was noticeably curt. "I never rode with her." Grange at once dropped the subject, and they became silent again. Muriel walked with her eyes fixed straight before her.
Generally she crossed a swamp, by a series of bounds in and out of flax bushes; and hopeless indeed would a morass be without those green cities of refuge! Horrible as a large swamp is however to a timid horsewoman, it is dear to the heart of a cockatoo.
Nor did they ride on any save unfrequented roads, preferring to cross the second range of hills and travel among a church-going farmer folk who would scarcely have recognized even Daylight from his newspaper photographs. He found Dede a good horsewoman good not merely in riding but in endurance.
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