. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. SALMON FISHING. 231 thrust carelessly through tho baud. He wore neither cluuk nor sword, though it was a p3riod at which gentlemen rarely went abroad without thasa, their distinctive attributes; but in the broad black belt which girt his rounded waist he carried a stout wood-knife with a buckhorn hilt; and over his shoulder there swung from a leathern thong a large wicker fishing-basket. " Nothing, indeed, could be simpler or less indicati
. Frank Forester's fish and fishing of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Fishes; Fishing; Poissons; Pêche sportive. SALMON FISHING. 231 thrust carelessly through tho baud. He wore neither cluuk nor sword, though it was a p3riod at which gentlemen rarely went abroad without thasa, their distinctive attributes; but in the broad black belt which girt his rounded waist he carried a stout wood-knife with a buckhorn hilt; and over his shoulder there swung from a leathern thong a large wicker fishing-basket. " Nothing, indeed, could be simpler or less indicative of any parti- cular rank or station in society than young St. Aubyn's garb, yet it would have been a very dull and unobservant eye which should tako him for aught less than a high-born and high-bred gentleman. " His fine intellectual face, his bearing erect before heaven, the graceful ease of his every motion, as ho hurried down the flagged stops of the terrace, and planted his light foot on the dewy greensward, all betokened gentle birth and gentle associations, " But he thought nothing of himself, nor cared for his advantages, acquired or natural. The long and heavy salmon-rod which he carried in his right hand, in three pieces as yet unconnected, did not more clearly indicate his purpose than the quick marking glance which he cast toward the half-veiled sun and hazy sky, scanning the signs of the wjather. "' It will do, it will do,' he said to himself, thinking as it were aloud, ' for three or four hours at least; tho sun will not shake oflF those vapors before eight o'clock at the earliest, and if he do come out then hot and strong, I do not know but the water is dark enough after the late rains to serve my turn a while longer. It will blow up, too, 1 think, from the westward, and there will be a brisk curl on the pools. But come, I must be moving, if I would reach Darringford to breakfast.' " And as he spoke he strode out rapidly across the park tow
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