Two Corinthians (1989)
“Besides, the long ride was the perfect way to try the stamina of the black gelding, Orpheus, which he was thinking of buying from the Sutton Stables, and he would reach Northumberland days earlier. He was not such a dandy that he could not live out of a saddlebag, and without the aid of his valet, for a while.
He had had to spend a couple of days in London on business after he left his brother’s house, and then the detour via Banbury had added another delay. Of course, a letter would have told ...his father the news long since, but he wanted to bear it himself. The opportunity to deliver such joyful tidings, to see the shadow lift at last from the marquis’s face, was not something to be surrendered in the interests of mere speed.
After a night in Newcastle, he turned inland. This border country of rugged hills and moors, north of Hadrian’s Wall, was very different from the lush, gentle landscape of his own estate in Dorset. His blood sang to its grandeur. Here his ancestors had driven back the Scots’ raids time and time again over long centuries of feuding.MoreLess
He had had to spend a couple of days in London on business after he left his brother’s house, and then the detour via Banbury had added another delay. Of course, a letter would have told ...his father the news long since, but he wanted to bear it himself. The opportunity to deliver such joyful tidings, to see the shadow lift at last from the marquis’s face, was not something to be surrendered in the interests of mere speed.
After a night in Newcastle, he turned inland. This border country of rugged hills and moors, north of Hadrian’s Wall, was very different from the lush, gentle landscape of his own estate in Dorset. His blood sang to its grandeur. Here his ancestors had driven back the Scots’ raids time and time again over long centuries of feuding.MoreLess
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