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himself, I thought to myself, " It is all right ; I don't 

 think he will cut me down now." However, he still 

 kept on trying, and at last the end came. He rode 

 his horse at a big fence which I am not sure he could 

 have jumped had he been fresh ; but as he was 

 not, it was a certain fall, and clown he came. Mr. 

 Winthrop jumped up as soon as he could, and bustled 

 his horse across the field, and fell again out of it, 

 being fairly pumped out. I went on by myself about 

 half a mile, where the fox ran to ground. 



We had another good gallop in the afternoon, and 

 I was very glad there was no second horse for me, 

 as ' Q.C was quite good enough. I shall not forget 

 his Grace asking me at night in the billiard-room if 

 I had enjoyed myself I thanked him, and said I 

 had, very much indeed. His answer was, " I thought 

 so, Custance, as you were up in the air nearly all 

 day." The Duke paid me a very great compliment 

 by saying he wished he had a whip half as quick as 

 myself. This was owing to my jumping into a wood 

 and turning the hounds that had got on to the heel- 

 line when his Grace had a fox — or, I might say, ought 

 to have had one — under a manger close by. I 

 managed to turn the hounds, and when we got back 

 to the place where the Duke expected to find him, 

 under a manger in a hovel, and where he thought 



