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CHAPTER XVII. THE RING-SIDE.
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Out of the whole of that vast multitude I was one of the very few who had observed whence it was that this black hat, skimming so opportunely1 over the ropes, had come. I have already remarked that when we looked around us there had been a single gig travelling very rapidly upon the southern road. My uncle’s eyes had rested upon it, but his attention had been drawn2 away by the discussion between Sir Lothian Hume and the referee3 upon the question of time. For my own part, I had been so struck by the furious manner in which these belated travellers were approaching, that I had continued to watch them with all sorts of vague hopes within me, which I did not dare to put into words for fear of adding to my uncle’s disappointments. I had just made out that the gig contained a man and a woman, when suddenly I saw it swerve4 off the road, and come with a galloping5 horse and bounding wheels right across the moor6, crashing through the gorse bushes, and sinking down to the hubs in the heather and bracken. As the driver pulled up his foam-spattered horse, he threw the reins7 to his companion, sprang from his seat, butted8 furiously into the crowd, and then an instant afterwards up went the hat which told of his challenge and defiance9.
“There is no hurry now, I presume, Craven,” said my uncle, as coolly as if this sudden effect had been carefully devised by him.
“Now that your man has his hat in the ring you can take as much time as you like, Sir Charles.”
“Your friend has certainly cut it rather fine, nephew.”
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Ford
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