Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . a deliberate aim at his whipper-ins head, and dis-charged the volume with such precision, that he knocked the backoff the book. Benjamin then ran roaring out of the room, vowing that Jorrockehad fractured his skull, and that he would take the law of him for it. Having now got a huntsman, and arranged with Duncan Nevinfor mounting him until he fell in with screws of his own, felt if he had business matters arranged in the City, hewould be all ready for a start; business first, and pleasure arter-wards, having always been one of his prudential mo
Handley Cross; or, MrJorrock's hunt . a deliberate aim at his whipper-ins head, and dis-charged the volume with such precision, that he knocked the backoff the book. Benjamin then ran roaring out of the room, vowing that Jorrockehad fractured his skull, and that he would take the law of him for it. Having now got a huntsman, and arranged with Duncan Nevinfor mounting him until he fell in with screws of his own, felt if he had business matters arranged in the City, hewould be all ready for a start; business first, and pleasure arter-wards, having always been one of his prudential mottoes. Accord-ingly he slipped down by express-train to the Loopline sta^on, on OB, MB. JOBBOCKSS HUNT. 159 the Lily white and Gravelcoin lines, to meet his traveller (representa-tive as he calls himself) Bugginson, to wet samples, and hear howthings were looking in the Lane—and the up-train not fittingcleverly, Mr. Jorrocks repaired to the Imperial Hotel, where, beingas an , rayther above the commercials, he turned into the. OLD BOYS MADE A JIJSTAKE. sumptuously furnished coffee-room. There he found a couple ofregular cut-em-down swells, viz., Captain Arthur Crasher of theHorselydown Hussars, and Captain Blucher Brusher, of the Leather-head Lancers, carousing after a weeks career with Sir PeregrineCroppers hounds. Having exchanged their wet hunting things for dry tweeds, andgot the weeks thorns out of their legs, they had dined and drowned ItfO 11ANDLEY CROSS; dull care in a couple of bottles of undeniable, Moet-corked, goose-berry champagne, and were now picking their teeth, twiddling theiiluxuriant moustaches, and stroking their stomachs with the utmostcomplacency. Mr. Jorrockss entry rather disturbed them. Old boys made a mistake, whispered the hussar, raising his eye-brows as our creaking-booted friend deposited his reversible coat andwriting-case on the side-board—the captain adding aloud, whatshall we have to dwink ? Do us no harm, I des-say, replied Brusher, s
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