11/21 Mr.Howard, the groom will await your orders." "Thanks," said Howard; "but I propose to sit quite still on a chair which I have carried out on to the terrace. I have had enough of driving to last me for a week;" and he shuddered. "Give him a hammock or an easy-chair in the shade, and he can always amuse himself by going to sleep." "True; and if half the men I know spent their time in a similar fashion this would be a brighter and a better world. What you will do, my dear Stafford, I know by bitter experience. He will go and wade through a river or ride at a break-neck pace down some of those hills. |