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... hounds killing their fox ; round the edges , as near as they dared go , red - coated horsemen , most cleverly grouped in twos and threes ; beyond all , a low , ugly tor of weather - worn granite . Laura Seckerton could paint as well as ...
... hounds killing their fox ; round the edges , as near as they dared go , red - coated horsemen , most cleverly grouped in twos and threes ; beyond all , a low , ugly tor of weather - worn granite . Laura Seckerton could paint as well as ...
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... hounds nearly at the same time . And lastly , coming to the Poyntzes ( represented by Sir Harry Poyntz , younger by a gen- eration than either of the other baronets ) , we are obliged to say that the family had grown so utterly ...
... hounds nearly at the same time . And lastly , coming to the Poyntzes ( represented by Sir Harry Poyntz , younger by a gen- eration than either of the other baronets ) , we are obliged to say that the family had grown so utterly ...
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... hound with one moment's glance , of gentle temper with man , horse , and dog . A young man who had hunted not only in Leicestershire and Berwickshire , but at Pau ; a young man entirely up to every conceivable sort of country . Such a ...
... hound with one moment's glance , of gentle temper with man , horse , and dog . A young man who had hunted not only in Leicestershire and Berwickshire , but at Pau ; a young man entirely up to every conceivable sort of country . Such a ...
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... hounds during the illness of the huntsman , and had brought him home . That he certainly understood his business in a masterly way , but was uncivil , loutish , quarrelsome , and rode very little under twelve stone . Lady Melton added ...
... hounds during the illness of the huntsman , and had brought him home . That he certainly understood his business in a masterly way , but was uncivil , loutish , quarrelsome , and rode very little under twelve stone . Lady Melton added ...
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... hounds had cost a deal of money , - great deal too much money , indeed . a So she heard of the world only from without . She heard her grandmother and her mother talking of the great governors of the country , and the great givers of ...
... hounds had cost a deal of money , - great deal too much money , indeed . a So she heard of the world only from without . She heard her grandmother and her mother talking of the great governors of the country , and the great givers of ...
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