'There'll be the devil to pay here,' said Lord Chiltern,
going straight with his hounds. Phineas Finn and Dick Rabbit were
close after him. Old Fowler had craftily gone to the ford; but Mrs
Spooner, who did not intend to be shaken off, followed the Master,
and close with her was Lord Silverbridge. 'Lord Chiltern hasn't
got it right,' she said. 'He can't do it among these bushes.' As
she spoke the Master put his horse at the bushes and then--
disappeared. The lady had been right. There was no ground at that
spot to take off from, and the bushes had impeded him. Lord
Chiltern had got over, but his horse was in the water. Dick Rabbit
and poor Phineas Finn were stopped in their course by the
necessity of helping the Master in his trouble.
But Mrs Spooner, the judicious Mrs Spooner, rode at the stream
where it was, indeed, a little wider, but at a place in which the
horse could see what he was about, and where he could jump from
and to firm ground. Lord Silverbridge followed her gallantly. They
both jumped the brook well, and then were together.
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