If the nation should decide to curtail your 'right,' as you call it, in the general interest, it will do it, and you will be left to scream." She had flung her arm round the back of her chair, and all her lithe young frame was tense with an eagerness, nay, an excitement, which drew Hallin's attention.

It was more than was warranted by the conversation, he thought.
"Well, if you think the abolition of game preserving would be popular in the country, Miss Boyce, I'm certain you make a precious mistake," cried Leven.

"Why, even you don't think it would be, do you, Mr.Hallin ?" he said, appealing at random in his disgust.
"I don't know," said Hallin, with his quiet smile.

"I rather think, on the whole, it would be.

The farmers put up with it, but a great many of them don't like it.