But his rider
changed his course. She went straight after the riderless horse,
and when Silverbridge had reduced himself to utter speechlessness
by his exertions, brought him back his steed.
'I am,--I am, I am--so sorry,' he struggled to say,--and then as she
held his horse for him he struggled up into his saddle.
'Keep down this furrow,' said Mrs Spooner, 'and we shall be with
them in the second field. There's nobody near them yet.'
CHAPTER 63
'I've Seen 'em Like That Before'
On this occasion Silverbridge stayed only a few days at
Harrington, having promised Tregear to entertain him at The
Baldfaced Stag. It was here that his horses were standing, and he
now intended, by limiting himself to one horse a day, to mount his
friend for a couple of weeks. It was settled at last that Tregear
should ride his friend's horse one day, hire the next, and so on.
'I wonder what you'll think of Mrs Spooner?' he said.
'Why should I think anything of her?'
'Because I doubt whether you ever saw such a woman before. She
does nothing but hunt.
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