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' All ! she's a channing girl, Tom, reminding me of your 

 poor mother when she was about her age ; it makes my 

 heart glow to look at her. Why, aren't you half in love 

 with her already ? ' 



' No, governor. Fellows don't fall over head and ears 

 in love with a handsome woman now a-days, as they did 

 in your time. It don't pay, that sort of a thing — marrying 

 a pretty girl for her beauty only. Money, Sir, money is 

 all we think of ; and if Alice had lots of the needful, I 

 might perhaps take the trouble of making advances in 

 that direction. But as for love in a cottage, it's exploded, 

 Sir, like that puff of my weed. Teimes evanescit in auras, 

 as we were taught at Eton ; clean gone Sir — out of sight, 

 and out of date.' 



' Ah !' muttered the govenor, ' things have come to a 

 pretty pass in the old country. No wonder they are 

 shipping cargoes of young women to the colonies. The 

 chief object of the present generation is to kill time and 

 annihilate space. Every man is in a violent hurry about 

 his own business, be that what it may. Half London is 

 under-tunnelled to save a few moments — perhaps half an 

 hour at the outside — to meet this universal mania ; liie 

 speed of the railroad is not sufficient. Telegrams are barely 

 sufficient to pander to this morbid appetite ; and in the 

 name of common sense, to what purpose is all this 

 inordinate haste ? As if time did not Hit sufficiently fast 

 already. The man of trade tells us, time is money ; that 

 is, he considers every minute lost in travelling or receiving 

 the earliest information on his particular matters is 

 so much loss of money to him. Eeuter's office is besieged 

 to learn the earliest information of what they are doing 

 in foreign parts, to serve the purpose of money-making 

 speculation in the rise and fall of the funds ; and this 

 restless spirit, impatient of check or delay, prevades the 

 hunting Held also. ' Pace, pace, pace,' is the one universal 

 cry amongst modern fox hunters. They say — 



Our fathers talk of hunting, let -them, 

 We only want quick bursts, and get them " 



We have saved our blank this week, but only on 

 Thursday was the weather passably good enough to enjoy 

 sport. 



On Wednesday the Shropshire essayed to hunt at 



