Narrations always are. The result to which he nearly came right
when he declared that the Major had been turned off, that a
committed had been appointed, and that Messrs Topps and Jawstock
had been threatened with a lawsuit.
'That comes,' said Lord Chiltern solemnly, 'of employing men like
Major Tifto in places for which they are radically unfit. I
daresay Major Tifto knew how to handle a pack of hounds,--perhaps
almost as well as my huntsman. But I don't think a county would
get on very well which appointed Fowler as Master of Hounds. He is
an honest man, and therefore would be better than Tifto. But--it
would not do. It is a position in which a man should at any rate
be a gentleman. If he be not, all those who should be concerned in
maintaining the hunt will turn their backs on him. When I take my
hounds over this man's ground, and that man's ground, certainly
without doing him any good, I have to think of a great many
things. I have to understand that those whom I cannot compensate
by money, I have to compensate by courtesy. When I shake hands
with a farmer and express my obligation to him because he does not
lock his gates, he is gratified.
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