Part 10 (1/2)

MARGOT: ”No, my horse was ”

STRANGER: ”Would you like to wear the blue and buff?”

MARGOT: ”It's pretty for woh I see you wear it; but in any case I could not get the blue habit”

STRANGER: ”Why not?”

MARGOT: ”Because the old Duke of Beaufort only gives it to woo hard and after today I mean to ride like the devil”

STRANGER: ”Oh, do you? But is the 'old Duke,' as you call him, so severe?”

MARGOT: ”I've no idea; I've never seen hiet you the blue habit, ould you say?”

MARGOT (with a patronising s hares!”

STRANGER: ”You would have to wear a top-hat, you know, and you would not like that! But, if you are going to ride like the devil, it ht save your neck; and in any case it would keep your hair tidy”

MARGOT (anxiously pushi+ng back her stray curls): ”Why, is my hair very untidy? It is the first time it has ever been up; and, when I was 'thrown froot loose”

STRANGER: ”It doesn't matter with your hair; it is so pretty I think I shall call you Miss Fluffy! By the bye, what is your name?”

When I told him he was much surprised:

”Oh, then you are a sister-in-law of the Ancestor's, are you?”

This was the first time I ever heard Ribblesdale called ”the Ancestor”; and as I did not knohat he meant, I said:

”And who are you?”

To which he replied:

”I a hares this tiive you the blue habit, but you know you will have to wear a top-hat”

MARGOT: ”Good gracious! I hope I've said nothing to offend you? Do you always do this sort of thing when you meet any one like me for the first ti his hat): ”Just as it is the first time you have ever hunted, so it is the first time I have ever met any one like you”

On the third day with the Beaufort hounds, alloped away I was picked up by a good-looking ave ham to Easton Grey; I fell passionately in love with him He owned a horse called Lardy Dardy, on which he mounted me

Charty and the others chaffedthat my father would never approve of a Tory and that it was lucky he was married