Excerpt from Proper Pride, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Cox, the horsey, with hands in pockets, was holding forth at intervals, to Brown, the and ladies' man par excellence, of the gallant smashers.

Never saw such a hole as this is in my life - never No hunting, no shooting, no sport of any kind. Think of all the tip top runs they are having at home now! If The Field is* to be believed, there never was such going; nor, for the matter of that, such grief. Here we are - stuck on an island; water wherever you look; not a horse worth twenty pounds in the place 1.

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