HIGH RISING

Ah Laura, you mock me.  Your paths are beyond me.  
You raise mediocrity to genius."                                                       George Knox to Laura Morland

HIGH RISING - 10

"High Rising was a pretty, unpretentious village consisting of one street, whose more imposing houses were vaguely Georgian.  Laura's house stood at the end, so that she had no more than a mile to walk to Low Rising, which was only a church, a vicarage, a farm, and a handful of cottages."

HIGH RISING - 9

"But on hearing that Mr. Brown of the garage was going to jack the car up that afternoon, he temporarily forgot about trains and rushed off to make arrangements with the vet to take the foxhound, whose leg was nearly well, to see the fun."

HIGH RISING - 8

BLOOD SPORTS III

"Luckily the hounds met twice during the week, which faintly distracted Tony's attention from railway systems, and he was able to give her a mass of authoritative and mostly erroneous information about hunting."

HIGH RISING - 7

BLOOD SPORTS II


"... Sibyl, before she went, invited Tony to come and help with a little rough shooting on the following day..."

HIGH RISING - 6

BLOOD SPORTS I

"... she pulled out a foxcub's tail, mounted on a handle, with the inscription, 'Risings Hunt.  November, 1828', which was a mistake of a century on the part of the local naturalist, but Laura had never liked to have it altered.  On this cub Tony had been blooded, at the instigation of Gerald and John.  He hadn't enjoyed the ceremony at all, but another and smaller boy had been frightened and cried, which had made Tony boast quite unbearably of his superior pluck and true blueness."

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