21/33 In England he is treated as an _equal_; here, in spite of his ceremonies, he is an _inferior_, and will and must be so. The best you can hope is that he will be merely unhappy. You pray that he won't take to drink and make his friends among the jockeys and the trainers. He has lost the taste for the native life, and nevertheless he has got to live it. The sincerity of Luffe had gained upon him. |