So after all, I believe, I and Primrose come off worst.

The horse's knees are cut to pieces.

He came down in a hole, it seems, and pitched Rex over his head." Gwendolen's face had allowably become contented again, since Rex's arm had been reset; and now, at the descriptive suggestions in the latter part of her uncle's speech, her elated spirits made her features less unmanageable than usual; the smiles broke forth, and finally a descending scale of laughter.
"You are a pretty young lady--to laugh at other people's calamities," said Mr.Gascoigne, with a milder sense of disapprobation than if he had not had counteracting reasons to be glad that Gwendolen showed no deep feeling on the occasion.
"Pray forgive me, uncle.

Now Rex is safe, it is so droll to fancy the figure he and Primrose would cut--in a lane all by themselves--only a blacksmith running up.

It would make a capital caricature of 'Following the Hounds.'" Gwendolen rather valued herself on her superior freedom in laughing where others might only see matter for seriousness.