We can make the double party without
you.'
'Then why the mischief should you growl at me?'
'Because I think a man should do what he undertakes to do. A man
who gets tired after three days' work of this kind would become
tired if he were earning his bread.'
'Who says I am tired? I came here to amuse myself.'
'Amuse yourself!'
'And as long as it amuses me, I shall shoot, and when it does not
I shall give it up.'
This vexed the governor of Crummie-Toddie much. He had learned to
regard himself as the arbiter of the fate of men while they were
sojourning under the same autumnal roof as himself. But a
defalcation which occurred immediately afterwards was worse.
Silverbridge declared his intention of going over one morning to
Killancodlem. Reginald Dobbes muttered a curse between his teeth,
which was visible by the anger of his brow, to all the party. 'I
shall be back tonight, you know,' said Silverbridge.
'A lot of men and women who pretend to come here for shooting,'
said Dobbes angrily, 'but do all the mischief they can.'
'One must go and see one's friends you know.
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