By-bye,
Silverbridge.' Then he left the room, having been made supremely
happy by what he considered to have been the Duke's joke.
Nevertheless he would remember the snubbing and would be even with
Silverbridge some day. Did Lord Silverbridge think that he was
going to look after his Lordship's 'orses, and do this always on
the square, and then be snubbed for doing it!
'I am very sorry that he should have come in to trouble you,' said
the son.
'He has not troubled me much. I do not know whether he has
troubled you. If you are coming down to the House again I will
walk with you.' Silverbridge of course had to go down to the
House again, and they started together. 'That man did not trouble
me Silverbridge; but the question is whether such an acquaintance
must not be troublesome to you.'
'I'm not very proud of him, sir.'
'But I think one ought to be proud of one's friends.'
'He isn't my friend in that way at all.'
'In what way then?'
'He understands racing.'
'He is the partner of your pleasure then;--the man whose society
you love to enjoy the recreation of the racecourse.
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