His blood beat hard, for suddenly he felt as if he had been behind just such a pack one day, one clear desirable day of spring.

He saw people gathering at the kennels; saw men drink beer and eat sandwiches at the door of the huntsman's house,--a long, low dwelling, with crumbling arched doorways like those of a monastery, watched them get away from the top of the moor, he among them; heard the horn, the whips; and saw the fox break cover.
Then came a rare run for five sweet miles--down a long valley--over quick-set hedges, with stiffish streams--another hill--a great combe--a lovely valley stretching out--a swerve to the right--over a gate--and the brush got at a farmhouse door.
Surely, he had seen it all; but what kink of the brain was it that the men wore flowing wigs and immense boot-legs, and sported lace in the hunting-field?
And why did he see within that picture another of two ladies and a gentleman hawking?
He was roused from his dream by hearing the huntsman say in a quizzical voice: "How do you like the dogs, sir ?" To his last day Lugley, the huntsman, remembered the slow look of cold surprise, of masterful malice, scathing him from head to foot.

The words that followed the look, simple as they were, drove home the naked reproof: "What is your name, my man ?" "Lugley, sir." "Lugley! Lugley! H'm! Well, Lugley, I like the hounds better than I like you.

Who is Master of the Hounds, Lugley ?" "Captain Maudsley, sir." "Just so.

You are satisfied with your place, Lugley ?" "Yes, sir," said the man in a humble voice, now cowed.
The news of the arrival of the strangers had come to him late at night, and, with Whipshire stupidity, he had thought that any one coming from the wilds of British America must be but a savage after all.
"Very well; I wouldn't throw myself out of a place, if I were you." "Oh, no, sir! Beg pardon, sir, I--" "Attend to your hounds there, Lugley." So saying, Gaston nodded Jacques away with him, leaving the huntsman sick with apprehension.
"You see how it is to be done, Brillon ?" said Gaston.