And I know what it means." "What does it mean ?" "You haven't observed anything ?" "I have observed nothing in Mr.Spooner, except an awe-struck horror at the trapping of a fox." "He's going to propose to Adelaide Palliser." "Oswald! You are not in earnest." "I believe he is.

He would have told me if he thought I could give him the slightest encouragement.

You can't very well turn him out now." "He'll get an answer that he won't like if he does," said Lady Chiltern.
Miss Palliser had ridden well on that day, and so had Gerard Maule.
That Mr.Spooner should ride well to hounds was quite a matter of course.

It was the business of his life to do so, and he did it with great judgment.

He hated Maule's style of riding, considering it to be flashy, injurious to hunting, and unsportsmanlike; and now he had come to hate the man.