He was cordially received.
"Mrs.Wingfield was speaking to me about you, and I shall be glad to have you with me--the more so as you are a capital rider and a good shot.

I shall have a good many in my ranks no older than you are.

Did I not hear a few months since that you bought Wildfire?
I thought, when I heard it, that you would be lucky if you did not get your neck broken in the course of a week.

Peters, who owns the next estate to mine, had the horse for about three weeks, and was glad enough to get rid of it for half what he had given for it.

He told me that the horse was the most savage brute he ever saw.