A leash went from it last Monday week.

When a man really means a thing, Miss Palliser, he can pretty nearly always do it." Miss Palliser replied with a smile that she thought that to be true, and Mr.Spooner was not slow at perceiving that this afforded good encouragement to him in regard to that matter which was now weighing most heavily upon his mind.
On the next day there was hunting again, and Phineas was mounted on a horse more amenable to persuasion than old Dandolo.

There was a fair run in the morning, and both Phineas and Madame Max were carried well.

The remarkable event in the day, however, was the riding of Dandolo in the afternoon by Lord Chiltern himself.

He had determined that the horse should go out, and had sworn that he would ride him over a fence if he remained there making the attempt all night.