[The American Senator by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Senator CHAPTER VIII 15/18
That's more than any of your hunters can say.
A hundred dogs to kill one fox!" "Not all at the same time, Mr.Gotobed." "And you have got none now ?" "I don't hunt myself." "And does nobody hunt the foxes about here at present ?" Then Morton explained that on the Saturday following the U.R.U.hounds, under the mastership of that celebrated sportsman Captain Glomax, would meet at eleven o'clock exactly at the spot on which they were then standing, and that if Mr.Gotobed would walk out after breakfast he should see the whole paraphernalia, including about half a hundred "dogs," and perhaps a couple of hundred men on horseback.
"I shall be delighted to see any institution of this great country," said Mr. Gotobed, "however much opposed it may be to my opinion either of utility or rational recreation." Then, having nearly eaten up one cigar, he lit another preparatory to eating it, and sauntered back to the house. Before dinner that evening there were a few words between the Paragon and his grandmother.
"I'm afraid you won't like my American friend," he said. "He is all very well, John.
Of course an American member of Congress can't be an English gentleman.
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