Of course you will be present on your 'bonny bay' to display your prowess ?" "Of course--a fox-hunt is to me a foretaste of celestial bliss.

With a first-rate horse, a crack pack of hounds, a 'good scent,' and a fine morning, a man is tempted to wish life could last forever.

And you are only going to ride to the meet, then, Lady Louise ?" "Yes; I never followed the hounds, I don't know the country and I can't ride to points.

Besides, I am not really Amazonian enough to fancy a scamper across the country, flying fences and risking my precious neck." "I must own that, to me, a lady never looks less attractive than in a hunting-field, among yelping hounds, and shouts, and cheers, and cords and tops, and scarlet coats." "That comes of being a poet and an artist; and Sir Everard Kingsland is accused of being both.

You want to fancy us all angels, and you can not reconcile an angelic being with a side-saddle and a hard gallop.
Now, I don't own to being anything in the Di Vernon line myself, and I don't wish to be; but I do think a pretty girl never looks half so pretty as when well mounted.