How is one to describe it shortly?
In a sentence it was the world that rides in the morning in the Bois.
In something less than a year and a half from the time he found her sitting on a broken fragment of stone work buried in the grass of his wild garden, full of thrushes, starlings, and other innocent creatures of the air, he had given her amongst other accomplishments the art of sitting admirably on a horse, and directly they returned to Paris he took her out with him for their first morning ride.
"I leave you to judge of the sensation," continued Mr.Blunt, with a faint grimace, as though the words had an acrid taste in his mouth.

"And the consternation," he added venomously.

"Many of those men on that great morning had some one of their womankind with them.

But their hats had to go off all the same, especially the hats of the fellows who were under some sort of obligation to Allegre.

You would be astonished to hear the names of people, of real personalities in the world, who, not to mince matters, owed money to Allegre.