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Most of those who saw Fred riding out of Middlee and Horrock, on his way of course to Houndsley horse-fair,

thought that young Vincy was pleasure-seeking as usual; and but for an

unwonted consciousness of grave matters on hand, he hi whatthat Fred was not at all coarse, that he

rather looked down on themen who had not

been to the university, and that he had written stanzas as pastoral and

unvoluptuous as his flute-playing, his attraction towards Ba fact which even the love of horse-flesh

would not wholly account for without thatwhich determinates so much of mortal choice Under any other

nae and Horrock

arded as monotonous; and to arrive with

theet down at the Red Lion

in a street shaded with coal-dust, and dine in a room furnished with a

dirt-enamelled map of the county, a bad portrait of an anonye the Fourth with legs and cravat, and

various leaden spittoons,power of nos was "gay"