“’Is Lordship purchased ’em just three weeks ago,” Bridges told him, “from a man who’d just lost ’is sight and who could no longer drive ’em. As I says to ’Is Grace, they be the best purchase we’ve made for over a year.”
“They certainly are,” the Earl agreed.
He thought as he patted the horses that those were the two he would take with him tomorrow.
It might annoy his father to lose them, but then he was gaining, for the moment at any rate, the four chestnuts he had bought at Tattersalls.
He told Bridges that he now wanted to look at the travelling vehicles.
“I have a friend who is selling his,” he explained, “but perhaps we have enough and so don’t need anything new.”
He realised that this was correct when he saw the many conveyances that his father possessed.
He knew it was one of
