16/39 Here, Tom! Bill! beat for the gentlemen. I only want the birds." Sir Charles drew back, and saw pheasant after pheasant thunder and whiz into the air, then collapse at a report, and fall like lead, followed by a shower of feathers. He left them in charge of his keepers, and went slowly home. She was very indignant at many of the things; but as for Sir Charles, all his cousin's arrows glided off that high-minded gentleman, except one, and that quivered in his heart. |