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136 | HIS GRACE. honor as a gentleman, I do not believe that Hurst: bourne will pocket the forks and spoons; still, if, as a measure of precaution, Mr. Gascoigne would like to have him searched before we leave, I have nothing to urge against it. Only I hope, for the sake of my nose and my front teeth, that I shall not be the person told off to search him.” ‘““My poor young friend,” returned Lady Deverell, who, I was glad to see, was highly incensed by my rejoinder, ‘“‘very few people know how to be clever, and every child knows how to be impertinent. If you can’t find anything better than that to say in defence of your friend, I should advise you to hold your tongue.”’ Well, at all events, I had put this arrogant and religious lady into a rage, and I don’t know what more I could have done. I was quite contented with that humble triumph. However, I am free to confess that she might have turned the tables on me and put me into a rage if our conversation had not, fortunately, been interrupted by the entrance of our host and Miss St. George, who had apparently met outside the door and who were in the midst of a temperate discussion as to the relative merits of hunting and shooting. “Of course,’ Mr. Gascoigne was saying, “ I admit that one of the obligations imposed upon all landed proprietors is to preserve foxes, and I think that, as a rule, they recognize this. They must give and take ; only what we shooting men sometimes venture to com- plain of is, that all the hunting men are more ready to take than to give. Theyare under the impression that _ everything and everybody ought to yield to them, and we can’t altogether share that: impression.” ““How many times have your coverts been drawn Gomichboo m