"
"While fortune oppressed me with celibate misery at Hoppet Hall,
nobody hated me for not hunting;--and as I could not very well
afford it, I was not considered to be entering a protest against
the amusement. As it is now I find that unless I consent to risk my
neck at any rate five or six times every winter, I shall be
regarded in that light"
"I wouldn't be frightened into doing anything I didn't like," said
Mary.
"How do you know that I shan't like it? The truth is I have had a
letter this morning from a benevolent philosopher which has almost
settled the question for me. He wants me to join a society for the
suppression of British sports as being barbarous and antipathetic
to the intellectual pursuits of an educated man. I would
immediately shoot, fish, hunt and go out ratting, if I could hope
for the least success. I know I should never shoot anything but the
dog and the gamekeepers, and that I should catch every weed in the
river; but I think that in the process of seasons I might jump over
a hedge."
"Kate will show you the way to do that"
"With Kate and Mr. Twentyman to help me, and a judicious system of
liberal tips to Tony Tuppett, I could make my way about on a quiet
old nag, and live respected by my neighbours. The fact is I hate
with my whole heart the trash of the philanimalist.
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