I suppose you have brought a gun like everybody else ?" "Yes;--I have brought a gun.

I do shoot; but I am not an inveterate sportsman." On that one day there was a great riding party made up, and Phineas found himself mounted, after luncheon, with some dozen other equestrians.

Among them were Miss Effingham and Lady Glencora, Mr.
Ratler and the Earl of Brentford himself.

Lady Glencora, whose husband was, as has been said, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and who was still a young woman, and a very pretty woman, had taken lately very strongly to politics, which she discussed among men and women of both parties with something more than ordinary audacity.

"What a nice, happy, lazy time you've had of it since you've been in," said she to the Earl.
"I hope we have been more happy than lazy," said the Earl.
"But you've done nothing.