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Then, attended by several cavaliers, comes Mrs. 

 Langtry, the cynosure of every eye, mounted on a 

 very handsome chesnut, the well-cut habit showing 

 her gi-aceful figure to the greatest advantage ; and 

 it is evident from the style she exhibits and the 

 management of her steed that she is to the manner 

 born a horsewoman of no mean pretensions. By 

 her side rides Colonel Vivian, on a superb golden 

 chesnut of unequalled symmetry, in brilliant condi- 

 tion, with beautiful action — the most perfect specimen 

 of a park horse I have seen for many a long day ; 

 and the conclusion I come to is that the horse and 

 his rider are thoroughly well matched, and will take 

 a deal of beating. Messrs. Murietta, on their well- 

 known and excellent polo ponies, are followed by 

 Mr. Arthur Byass, with Mrs. Byass, mounted on her 

 extremely good-looking dark-brown nag, which she 

 sits gracefull}^ and rides with judgment ; by Mr. 

 Coupland, whose quiet manner and unpretending 

 style of horsemanship would be likely to bring to 

 gi'ief any tyro who might select him as a pilot across 

 the big fields and tall fences of his " country," as he 

 would find him a difficult and deceitful man to follow 

 in a splitting burst with his noble pack of hounds ; by 

 Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, on a good-looking nag; 

 Lord Charles Kerr, Lady Gladys Herbert, and two 

 men riding long-tailed horses, each the counterpart 

 of the other — Corsican brothers, in fact — who take 

 their pleasure somewhat sadly during their solemn 

 and silent evening ride. Here is the well-known 

 form of Mr. Mackenzie Grieves, admirably mounted, 

 exchanging the pleasures of Paris for the more sober 

 delights of London life for a while. Then, moving 



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