human
How the deuce am I to get there?
gpt
Your cousin will lend you a horse.
human
He's as cross as a bear with a sore head. He's a deal older than I am, and a cousin and all that, but I'm not going to put up with insolence. If it were anywhere else I should just go into the yard and ask if I could have a horse and saddle as a matter of course.
gpt
Roger has not a great establishment.
human
I suppose he has a horse and saddle, and a man to get it ready. I don't want anything grand.
gpt
He is vexed because he sent twice to the station for you yesterday.
human
I hate the kind of fellow who is always thinking of little grievances. Such a man expects you to go like clockwork, and because you are not wound up just as he is, he insults you. I shall ask him for a horse as I would any one else, and if he does not like it, he may lump it. About half an hour after this he found his cousin.
gpt
Can I have a horse to ride over to Caversham this afternoon?
human
Our horses never go out on Sunday, said Roger. Then he added, after a pause,
gpt
You can have it. I'll give the order. Sir Felix would be gone on Tuesday, and it should be his own fault if that odious cousin ever found his way into Carbury House again! So he declared to himself as Felix rode out of the yard; but he soon remembered how probable it was that Felix himself would be the owner of Carbury. And should it ever come to pass,--as still was possible,--that Henrietta should be the mistress of Carbury, he could hardly forbid her to receive her brother. He stood for a while on the bridge watching his cousin as he cantered away upon the road, listening to the horse's feet. The young man was offensive in every possible way. Who does not know that ladies only are allowed to canter their friends' horses upon roads? A gentleman trots his horse, and his friend's horse. Roger Carbury had but one saddle horse,--a favourite old hunter that he loved as a friend. And now this dear old friend, whose legs probably were not quite so good as they once were, was being galloped along the hard road by that odious cub!
human
Soda and brandy! Roger exclaimed to himself almost aloud, thinking of the discomfiture of that early morning.
gpt
He'll die some day of delirium tremens in a hospital!
human
In God's name where do you expect the money is to come from?