At once I used my whole body as a spring, and so straightened enough to turn and put my arm power against his own, which was all I wanted.
He laughed when I turned, and with perfect good nature freed my arm and sprang to his feet, bowing with hand upreached to me.

His eye had lost its peculiar stare, and shone now with what seemed genuine interest and admiration.

He seemed ready to call me a sportsman, and a good rival, and much as I disliked to do so, I was obliged to say as much for him in my own heart.
"By the Lord! sir," he said--with a certain looseness of speech, as it seemed to me, for a minister of the gospel to employ, "you're the first I ever knew to break it." "'Twas no credit to me," I owned.

"You let go your hand.

The horse is yours." "Not in the least," he responded, "not in the least.