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instead of the lifeless passivity of five 

 minutes before. Her courage repelled the 

 shock to her instinct, but her understanding 

 had taken a " list " to the unknown and the 

 impossible, and in spite of the morning 

 sunshine and the candid blue sky, she could 

 not altogether right herself. 



A long shout of *'gone away" came from 

 the watcher on the hill, and the hounds 

 came tumbling out of the wood in the 

 lovely headlong rush that has the shape of 

 a wave and a thousandfold its impetuosity. 

 With the indescribable chorus of yells and 

 squeals that is known as full cry, they 

 swept past Slaney, and it was at this 

 juncture that Isabella, the brown mare, 

 found herself the victim of a gush of en- 

 thusiasm. It may have been a survival in 

 her old soul of the days when she had, 

 according to tradition, carried the huntsman 

 of the county pack ; it may have been that 

 she, like her rider, was lifted out of herself 

 by the discerning of spiritual things; at 

 any rate, when she found her head pointed 



