She is awfully fond of preaching.

Her dream is to jump on a first-rate hunter, and ride across country, and preach to the villages.

So, when George came grinning to me with the letter, I told him to buy a new side-saddle for the gray, and take her the lot, with my compliments.

I had noticed a slight spavin in his near foreleg.

She rode him that very day in the park, all alone, and made such a sensation that next day my gray was standing in Lord Hailey's stables.