He made it, too, as severe as he could by another shake of his
head.
"Do you mean to tell me that my cousin cannot be supplied with an animal
to ride upon?"
"My leddie, I've said nowt o' the kind. There ain't no useful animal as I
kens the name and nature of as he can't have in Ayrshire--for paying for
it, my leddie; horse, pownie, or ass, just whichever you please, my
leddie. But there'll be a seddle--"
"A what?"
There can be no doubt that Gowran purposely slurred the word so that his
mistress should not understand him. "Seddles don't come for nowt, my
leddie, though it be Ayrshire."
"I don't understand what it is that you say, Andy."
"A seddle, my leddie," said he, shouting the word at her at the top of his
voice--"and a briddle. I suppose as your leddy-ship's cousin don't ride
bareback up in Lunnon?"
"Of course there must be the necessary horse-furniture," said Lady
Eustace, retiring to the castle. Andy Gowran had certainly ill-used her,
and she swore that she would have revenge. Nor when, she was informed on
the Tuesday that an adequate pony had been hired for eighteen pence a day,
saddle, bridle, groom, and all included, was her heart at all softened
towards Mr.
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