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At the end of the day I was given the brush a fashion completely abandoned in the hunting-field now and I went home happy and tired. Although I did not do much thinking over my education, others did it for me. I had been well grounded by a series of short-stayed governesses in the Druids and woad, in Alfred and the cakes, Romulus and Remus and Bruce and the spider.
In all his life he had never been so happy, as, during the past few months, his wife had made him. All former delights of turf, mess, hunting-field, and gambling-table; all previous loves and courtships of milliners, opera-dancers, and the like easy triumphs of the clumsy military Adonis, were quite insipid when compared to the lawful matrimonial pleasures which of late he had enjoyed.
Jonathan speculated, unable to realize the image of his son as a foot-man in the hunting-field, or to comprehend the insolence of a pedestrian who should dare to attack a mounted huntsman. "You were on foot? The devil you were on foot! Foot? And caught a man out of his saddle?" Jonathan gave up the puzzle. He laid out his fore finger decisively, "If it's an assault, mind, you stand damages.
Ladies of course made morning calls, and gentlemen too, occasionally; but society at Desmond Court was for some years pretty much confined to this cold formal mode of visiting. Owen Fitzgerald, however, did obtain admittance into the precincts of the Desmond barracks. He went there first with the young earl, who, then quite a boy, had had an ugly tumble from his pony in the hunting-field.
She can take a fence in the hunting-field like a bird ! Oh, all right, just hold still, and I'll unfasten it." And he struggled with a recalcitrant buckle. "Well, you'll not forget about Miss Treherne, will you? She ought to go just as she is. Fancy-dress on her would be gilding the gold; for, though she isn't surpassingly beautiful, she is very fine, very fine indeed.
A broken neck in a hunting-field, a slip on rocky mountains, a wounded animal at bay such was the environment of death for which he had ever prayed. But this this was beyond his dreams. And with it all a great humility fell upon him. His battles were all unfought. His life had been careless and gay; and the noble commonplaces of faith and duty had been things of small meaning.
He was a young relation of one of the older men, and having come to his kinsman's house upon a visit, and having proved himself, in spite of his youth, to be a young fellow of humour, high courage in the hunting-field, and by no means averse either to entering upon or discussing intrigue and gallant adventure, had made himself something of a favourite.
One farmer had been telling another something which his companion seemed to consider doubtful, and disputed; however, he finished up by saying, 'That's no lie, I can assure you. 'Well, no; but I should certainly have taken it as such. One fellow happening by chance in the hunting-field to come across the Prince of Wales, took off his hat with both hands to express his deep humility.
She had met Wilfrid once in the hunting-field, so they soon had common ground to run on. Mr. Powys made Emilia happy by talking to her of Italy, in the intervals of table anecdotes. "Why did you leave it?" she said. "I found I had more shadows than the one allotted me by nature; and as I was accustomed to a black one, and not half a dozen white, I was fairly frightened out of the country."
He said he had "just walked through it, and noticed that the spot was still vacant, and I think surely," he added, "the young man's father must have meant to recall him home some day, but perhaps death took him unawares." "Died in the hunting-field," murmured the Squire.
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