This I accordingly did. "Send my small portmanteau," I said, "and
all my black dress clothes, and shirts, and socks, and all that, and
above all my dressing things which are on the little table, and the
satin neck-handkerchief, and whatever you do, mind you send my
PUMPS;" and I underscored the latter word; for Jack O'Conor, when his
father left me, went on pressing the invitation. "My sisters are
going to get up a dance," said he; "and if you are fond of that kind
of things perhaps we can amuse you." Now in those days I was very
fond of dancing--and very fond of young ladies too, and therefore
glad enough to learn that Tom O'Conor had daughters as well as sons.
On this account I was very particular in underscoring the word pumps.
"And hurry, you young divil," Jack O'Conor said to Patsey.
"I have told him to take the portmanteau over on a car," said I.
"All right; then you'll find it there on our arrival."
We had an excellent run, in which I may make bold to say that I did
not acquit myself badly. I stuck very close to the hounds, as did
the whole of the O'Conor brood; and when the fellow contrived to
earth himself, as he did, I received those compliments on my horse,
which is the most approved praise which one fox-hunter ever gives to
another.
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