It amounts to complete defeat; and is tantamount to a confession that you must go home, because you are unable to ride to hounds.

A man, when he is compelled to do this, is almost driven to resolve at the spur of the moment that he will give up hunting for the rest of his life.

And if one thing be more essential than any other to the horseman in general, it is that he, and not the animal which he rides, shall be the master.

"The best thing is to stick him at it till he do," the groom had said; and Phineas resolved to be guided by the groom.
But his first duty was to attend on Madame Goesler.

With very little assistance she was again in her saddle, and she at once declared herself certain that her horse could take the fence.