But when he got home he did think favourably of it.
The daughter of a Duke,--and such a Duke! So lovely a girl, and
with such gifts! And then a fortune which would make a material
addition to his own large property!
CHAPTER 36
Tally-ho Lodge
We all know that very clever distich concerning the great fleas
and the little fleas which tell us that no animal is too humble to
have its parasite. Even Major Tifto had his inferior friend. This
was a certain Captain Green,--for the friend also affected military
honours. Tifto, of whose antecedents no one was supposed to know
anything. It was presumed of him that he lived by betting, and it
was boasted by those who wished to defend his character that when
he lost he paid his money like a gentleman. Tifto during the last
year or two had been anxious to support Captain Green, and had
always made use of this argument; 'Where the D---- he gets his
money I don't know;--but when he loses it, there it is.'
Major Tifto had a little 'box' of his own in the neighbourhood of
Egham, at which he had a set of stables a little bigger than his
house, and a set of kennels a little bigger than his stables.
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