In this matter
everything depends upon tact and penetration. The actual events of
life always transcend anything that is imaginable.
The manner of coming home is to be regulated in accordance with a
number of circumstances. For example:
Lord Catesby was a man of remarkable strength. It happened one day
that he was returning from a fox hunt, to which he had doubtless
promised to go, with some ulterior view, for he rode towards the fence
of his park at a point where, he said, he saw an extremely fine horse.
As he had a passion for horses, he drew near to examine this one close
at hand, There he caught sight of Lady Catesby, to whose rescue it was
certainly time to go, if he were in the slightest degree jealous for
his own honor. He rushed upon the gentleman he saw there, and seizing
him by the belt he hurled him over the fence on to the road side.
"Remember, sir," he said calmly, "it rests with me to decide whether
it well be necessary to address you hereafter and ask for satisfaction
on this spot."
"Very well, my lord; but would you have the goodness to throw over my
horse also?"
But the phlegmatic nobleman had already taken the arm of his wife as
he gravely said:
"I blame you very much, my dear creature, for not having told me that
I was to love you for two.
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