[The American Senator by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Senator CHAPTER X 16/17
How long will they go on ?" "Half an hour perhaps." "And you call that hunting! Is it worth the while of all those men to expend all that energy for such a result? Upon the whole, Mr.Morton, I should say that it is one of the most incomprehensible things that I have ever seen in the course of a rather long and varied life. Shooting I can understand, for you have your birds.
Fishing I can understand, as you have your fish.
Here you get a fox to begin with, and are all broken-hearted.
Then you come across another, after riding about all day, and the chances are you can't catch him!" "I suppose," said Mr.Morton angrily, "the habits of one country are incomprehensible to the people of another.
When I see Americans loafing about in the bar-room of an hotel, I am lost in amazement." "There is not a man you see who couldn't give a reason for his being there.
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