His leg is not broken; it's only his trousers." And then the earl told the story of the bull.
"Johnny will become quite a hero in town," said Crofts.
"Yes; I fear he'll get the most of the credit; and yet I was at it twice as long as he was.

I'll tell you what, young men, when I got to that gate I didn't think I'd breath enough left in me to get over it.

It's all very well jumping into a hedge when you're only two-and-twenty; but when a man comes to be sixty he likes to take his time about such things.

Dinner ready, is it?
So am I.I quite forgot that mutton chop of yours to-day, doctor.

But I suppose a man may eat a good dinner after a fight with a bull ?" The evening passed by without any very pleasurable excitement, and I regret to say that the earl went fast to sleep in the drawing-room as soon as he had swallowed his cup of coffee.