He is very sweet, you know, on this American girl
whom you have here.' Again the Duke winced. 'Dobbes is awfully
good as to making out the shooting, but then he his a tyrant.
Nevertheless I agree with him, if you mean to do a thing you
should do it.'
'Certainly,' said the Duke. 'But you should make up your mind
first whether the thing is worth doing.'
'Just so,' said Popplecourt. 'And as grouse and deer together are
about the best things out, most of us made up our minds that it
was worth doing. But that fellow Tregear would argue it out. He
said a gentleman oughtn't to play billiards as well as a marker.'
'I think he was right,' said the Duke.
'Do you know Mr Tregear, Duke?'
'I have met him--with my son.'
'Do you like him?'
'I have seen very little of him.'
'I cannot say I do. He thinks so much of himself. Of course he is
very intimate with Silverbridge, and that is all that anyone knows
of him.' The Duke bowed almost haughtily, though why he bowed he
could hardly have explained to himself. Lady Cantrip bit her lips
in disgust.
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