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Lesbia blushed at his tone, which was almost a reproach.
'I suppose I ought to have understood from the general tenor of your
conversation,' she said; 'but I am terribly stupid about politics. I
take so little interest in them. I am always hearing that we are being
badly governed--that the men who legislate for us are stupid or wicked;
yet the world seems to go on somehow, and we are no worse.'
'It is just the same with sport,' said Maulevrier. 'Every rainy spring
we are told that all the young birds have been drowned, or that the
grouse-disease has decimated the fathers and mothers, and that we shall
have nothing to shoot; but when August comes the birds are there all the
same.'
'It is the nature of mankind to complain,' said Hammond. 'Cain and Abel
were the first farmers, and you see one of them grumbled.'
They were rather lively at breakfast that morning--Maulevrier's last
breakfast but one--for he had announced his determination of going to
Scotland next day. Other fellows would shoot all the birds if he dawdled
any longer.


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