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" At all events/^ said he, bowing to my friend, 

 ^' her breeding is high enough to induce her to do 

 her best to keep in good company/^ 



" A very choice thing, sir," said I to the dis- 

 tiller, well knowing he had seen little of it. 



^^ Rather so," said he, looking as amiable as if 

 one of his customers^ acceptances had been re- 

 turned on his hand. 



"^Yill says he means to draw Walford for a 

 second fox," said Roberts. " I hate that stick-in- 

 the-mud place. Fm off." 



"What would you like ?" said I to my friend. 

 " I am quite at your disposal, though I think, 

 like my friend, the place they are going to de- 

 testable." 



" I vote, then, for home," said my friend, " and 

 a chat over the day^s hunting." 



" Agreed," said I ; " for as my wife will return 

 home in a day or two, we will make the most of 

 our time for such matters during her absence; for, 

 excepting in your particular case, I always banish 

 horses and dogs, as subjects of conversation, after 

 w^e have done with them as our morning amuse- 

 ment." 



" Before I ask you any questions as to our 

 day^s proceedings, I want to buy the horse you 

 rode to-day ; or, as you say you think very highly 

 of the one I rode, can^t we manage a swap?" 

 demanded mv friend. 



