Is it not odd that I should have told you all this history ?" "Just because this brute would not jump over the fence." "I dare say I should have told you, even if he had jumped over; but certainly this has been a great opportunity.

Do you tell your friend Lord Chiltern not to abuse the poor Duke any more before me.

I dare say our host is all right in what he says; but I don't like it.
You'll come and see me in London, Mr.Finn ?" "But you'll be at Matching ?" "I do get a few days at home sometimes.

You see I have escaped for the present,--or otherwise you and I would not have come to grief together in Broughton Spinnies." Soon after this they were overtaken by others who were returning home, and who had been more fortunate than they in getting away with the hounds.

The fox had gone straight for Trumpeton Wood, not daring to try the gorse on the way, and then had been run to ground.
Chiltern was again in a towering passion, as the earths, he said, had been purposely left open.