It has done me good to think
that I have in some small degree sacrificed myself. Let me see;--we
are to turn here to the left. That goes to Copperhouse Cross, no
doubt. Is it not odd that I should have told you all this history?"
"Just because this brute would not jump over the fence."
"I dare say I should have told you, even if he had jumped over; but
certainly this has been a great opportunity. Do you tell your friend
Lord Chiltern not to abuse the poor Duke any more before me. I dare
say our host is all right in what he says; but I don't like it.
You'll come and see me in London, Mr. Finn?"
"But you'll be at Matching?"
"I do get a few days at home sometimes. You see I have escaped for
the present,--or otherwise you and I would not have come to grief
together in Broughton Spinnies."
Soon after this they were overtaken by others who were returning
home, and who had been more fortunate than they in getting away with
the hounds. The fox had gone straight for Trumpeton Wood, not daring
to try the gorse on the way, and then had been run to ground.
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