Certainly I am not good for much, unless it's riding and making love." With which summary of his merits, "Beauty," who felt himself to be a master in those two arts, but thought himself a bad fellow out of them, sauntered away to join the Seraph and the rest of his guests; his father's words pursuing him a little, despite his carelessness, for they had borne an unwelcome measure of truth.
"Royal can hit hard," his thoughts continued.

"'A pauper and a Guardsman!' By Jove! It's true enough; but he made me so.

They brought me up as if I had a million coming to me, and turned me out among the cracks to take my running with the best of them--and they give me just about what pays my groom's book! Then they wonder that a fellow goes to the Jews.

Where the deuce else can he go ?" And Bertie, whom his gains the day before had not much benefited, since his play-debts, his young brother's needs, and the Zu-Zu's insatiate little hands were all stretched ready to devour them without leaving a sovereign for more serious liabilities, went, for it was quite early morning, to act the M.F.H.in his fathers' stead at the meet on the great lawns before the house, for the Royallieu "lady-pack" were very famous in the Shires, and hunted over the same country alternate days with the Quorn.

They moved off ere long to draw the Holt Wood, in as open a morning and as strong a scenting wind as ever favored Melton Pink.
A whimper and "gone away!" soon echoed from Beebyside, and the pack, not letting the fox hang a second, dashed after him, making straight for Scraptoft.