human
You ought to have had a good many snipe by the way, Gould, said one of the guests.
gpt
They are always found in those water meadows of yours at the end of a frost.
human
My son and his young friend can tell you best about them, replied Mr Gould.
gpt
I believe they have been out after them to-day.
human
Ah! and what sport had you?
gpt
Oh, I got five couple.
human
And your friend?
gpt
I only shot one,
human
Come, I say, Lionel, said Clarissa Gould to her brother,
gpt
I am not going to have my cousin Bellefleur treated in this manner. You are a nice sort of host to leave your guest the worst of the shooting.
human
He had as many shots as I had, said young Gould, whose desire of self- glorification smothered any soupcon of good taste which he might have acquired,
gpt
Indeed, yes, said Crawley, concealing his sense of humiliation in the very best way;
human
Ah! observed the first inquirer,
gpt
I know I fired away a pound of lead before I touched a snipe when I first began. But what a lot of them there must have been if you killed five couple, Lionel.
human
I do not think I should care for shooting if I were a man, said Clarissa to Crawley.
gpt
But hunting, now, I should be wild about. I hunt sometimes, but only with the harriers. Mama will not let me go out with the foxhounds, and they meet so far off that I cannot fall in with them by accident, for there is no cover near here. But the harriers are to go out the day after to-morrow, if the frost does not return, and I am looking forwards to a good gallop. Are you fond of hunting?
human
I know that I should be, replied Crawley,
gpt
Oh, well, we will mount you; I think Daisy will be quite up to your weight, Sir Robert certainly would, but Daisy is the nicest to ride.