He received L2,000 a year from the gentlemen of the county, and he himself only paid anything which the hounds and horses might cost over that.

"He's a sort of upper servant then ?" asked the Senator.
"Not at all.

He's the greatest man in the county on hunting days." "Does he live out of it ?" "I should think not." "It's a deal of trouble, isn't it ?" "Full work for an active man's time, I should say." A great many more questions were asked and answered, at the end of which the Senator declared that he did not quite understand it, but that as far as he saw he did not think very much of Captain Glomax.
"If he could make a living out of it I should respect him," said the Senator;--"though it's like knife-grinding or handling arsenic,--an unwholesome sort of profession." "I think they look very nice," said Morton, as one or two well-turned-out young men rode up to the place.
"They seem to me to have thought more about their breeches than anything else," said the Senator.

"But if they're going to hunt why don't they hunt?
Have they got a fox with them ?" Then there was a further explanation.
At this moment there was a murmur as of a great coming arrival, and then an open carriage with four post-horses was brought at a quick trot into the open space.

There were four men dressed for hunting inside, and two others on the box.