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He might take her to task if he pleased for having spent so much money on glass. "But I must have my humble friends round me," continued Rorie. "The young people, too the boys and girls. I'll tell you what, mother. We must have a lawn meet. The hounds have never met here since my grandfather's time fifty years ago. The Duke's stud-groom was telling me about it last year.
Now Snaffle was the stud-groom, a personage altogether independent of the huntsman, and, in the ordinary course of nature, Snaffle had just as much right to send for Watchorn as Watchorn had to send for him; but Watchorn being, as we said before, some way connected with Lady Scattercash, he just did as he liked among the whole of them, and they were too good judges to rebel.
"Yes, certainly, you shall drive the ponies." "Oh, how nice of you, Susie!" Edwards was the stud-groom. He had arrived at Longueval three days before. He deigned to come himself to meet Mrs. Scott and Miss Percival. He brought the phaeton drawn by the four black ponies. He was waiting at the station. The passage of the ponies through the principal street of the town had made a sensation.
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