"What new folly now ?" "Well, you see, I have got an idea that it will make a favourable impression on Miss Madeleine if she sees me on horseback.

Just fancy me on a horse with a long mane and tail, like the picture of General Prim; there!" and he went cantering round the room, and pulled up suddenly before Worse--"there, like that: a good fierce expression.

Is not that it?
I believe that will do the business." Worse could not help laughing, although he did not think much of the frivolous way Delphin had of paying his addresses to Madeleine.
"You are not going to ride up to Sandsgaard this morning ?" "No, not exactly; it would not do.

I can't very well go up there dressed for riding, and if I were to ride in these clothes I should look absurd.
But I thought of riding out there this evening, somewhere about seven o'clock.

Just fancy me coming in over the garden wall with a flying salute, and lighted by the last rays of the evening sun! Why, it would be irresistible." "Well, I am afraid, or perhaps I ought rather to say I hope, that Miss Madeleine will not fully appreciate your novel way of paying her your addresses," said Worse, half-seriously.
"Ah, my most respected friend, you know very little of woman's heart; and how should you, when your ideal is a woman who goes in for her rights?
a tall bony creature with a moustache under her nose, and 'Woman's wrongs' under her arm." "Leave off, will you ?" cried Worse.