about one mile then we often get a day with the but sir george thinks that the sport of fox hunting is distinctly on the down grade he attributes ho the decline to the advance of shooting interests the don t make such good points as thirty years ago in open hill country no fox is allowed to live on account of preserving and and many of the owners and of the large do not hunt and close them to hounds in the early part of the season j so it is with difficulty we are able to hunt three times a week in then she would sell ho his voice was so sternly repressed that it sounded strange lady shot a quick pitying glance at him still on the same wild goose chase she said � for a horse that will win the grand national he nodded san won t sell she said adding under her breath can t i am going over with you to morrow he said quietly ho how she hates racing i she seems mad on the point like most her eyes snapped at him she had no patience with the that ruled his life still i must not forget that it is owing solely to your attendance at the race meeting and being within a short ride that i am indebted for the honour of your company now laughed and hunted to day because i heard a word dropped about a wonderful horse called ho but did not know you knew its owner he said don t know what i should do without that he added with an abrupt change of subject it takes me from one race meeting to another and up and down to at a of time and fatigue as to scenery i ve seen you grasp more in an hour s run in a than in a week s driving or walking where s i wish you would come oftener to he added quietly i ve asked you times without end you are hardly ever there she said and the waste the extravagance rs me besides i mustn t get a taste for luxuries i can t afford he smiled glancing round at the delightful room the entire harmony of it all he had long ago realized how much more to some women even as to a man comfort is than luxury i have nothing with which to tempt you he said nothing she said and laughed for it was true but might like it he said poor must find it dull here he spoke as he might of a or and lady laughed outright it was one of the most interesting points in that he honestly detested all women under fifty then they get he said women were a nuisance no wanted women sport was so much better ho then he went off for a hot bath and lady left alone grinned poor i she said that hair and cold as a fish here was a b in human history but if could not wake him up � and came from that burning country where the peasant knows more about the arts of love has studied them more deeply than the most finished student of women in any other country in the where men and women live for love and love alone � who could lady had a lively remembrance of her italian sister in law with the eloquent animal eyes blood of quality and passions of the ancient dimensions hidden in under a of breeding but there all the same son of lady s favourite sister as was she knew him very little � not half so well as his cousin he interested her as most men who never even chapter ii t y horses coats never look like the aid lady in a dissatisfied way glancing through the window at the handsome chestnut waiting to take her and to the cross roads but they get up in the middle of the night to groom them and reckon their success by the number of of they get out of their horses protested body and water you mean you little said who was also looking out no two do a horse alike but a b seldom used except on a cart horse inwardly however he he belonged to the order that takes care of its women never lets them do the smallest thing that can be done for them the last time took a man over said gaily i went too san was a pony right under his and baby was turning the handle of the machine then san crawled out and put his fore across her knee she pretended to him and he to savage her it was really very pretty she added with no malice in her tone for hated scandal but in any case he was in a so great hurry to depart that he did not hear her or even see her lady with the essential lack of principle inherent in really artistic people was struck anew with the perfect colour scheme and composed for the girl s ho hair was blue black and in some lights had the bloom of grapes on it curling in just as s hair did in close crisp the intense vitality the temperament that hair can express surely never reached a higher point of illustration than in these two and yet in the case of one of them lied for might have been bald headed for all knew or cared he almost forgot to jerk a good bye with his whip to her as she stood on the in lady how far it was to the cross roads five miles we could have done it in ten minutes in my he muttered thank you said lady i scale half a stone more than i should already and ive no intention of getting the waist that half the women are 