Held in Bondage Author:Ouida Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: all liked the same style of woman where should we be? We rival and jostle and hate each other enough as it is, about that centre of all mischief, the Beau Sexe, ... more »Heaven knows! We had another run that day, but it was a very slow- affair. We killed the fox, but he made scarcely any running at all, and we might have scored it almost as a blank day; but for our first glorious twenty minutes, one of the fastest things I ever knew, from Euston Hollows up to Sifton Wood. Lady Blanche went back in ill- humour: missing that ditch had put the pretty widow in dudgeon for all the day; but the Trefusis!—it's my firm conviction that Mazeppa's gallop could not have tired that woman. She rode, as De Vigne observed admiringly to me, with as firm a seat and as strong a hand as any rough-rider. Excellence in his own art pleased, him, I suppose, for he watched her more and more; and rode back to Euston Hollows with her, through the gloaming, some nine miles from where the last fox was killed, looking down on her beauty with bold, tender glances. CHAPTER III. In the Academic Shades of Granta. I/estrange had bid us send our things over to his house, and make our toilettes there, after the day's sport; and when we went down into the drawing-room, we found the Trefusis sitting on an amber satin couch, queening it over the county men, a few college fellows or professors, and the borough Members. There were Mrs. St. Croix and her two daughters, showy, flighty, hawked-about women, and the Gwyn-Erlens, fresh, nice-looking girls; and Lady Blanche, recovered from her ill- humour, and ready to shoot down any game worth or not worth the hitting; and the Countess of Turquoise, who thought very few people knew what fun was, she told me, and instanced the dreary social torture called dining out; and ...« less