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luxurious study, or in a still more luxurious drawing-room, or
in a kennel very little behind the two rooms in comfort and
beauty. On the contrary, he saw plenty of sun and wind.
He had been trained, like his master, to count as the best part
of his time those hours which were spent in the open air, and
in active exercise. Coursing was exactly to Carlo what stalk-
ing deer, riding to hounds, and rowing a boat were to his
master. When the dog's blood and breeding were up, he
could make a good fight in his doggish sport.
 What I do intend to convey is, that in Carlo, and, for that
matter, in his master also, the instincts of self-preservation,
self-resource, and independence were sensibly and uncon-
sciously weakened. The two could not have earned a dinner
for themselves to save their lives, and if they had earned it they
would not have known what to do with it, unless some foreign
aid had happily come to them. Even after they had been
initiated into the necessary process, they would have been so
revolted by all the plain details inevitable to preparing a
dinner, that they would have left it to be devoured by hardier
applicants, till hunger urged them on to the stifling of their
over-trained and stimulated susceptibilities.
 Carlo first saw the light in a perfectly appointed kennel,
built in the shape of a pagoda, one of the show-places in a
noble ancestral park. His birth was attended with all the
9clat of the coming into the world of a great and important
personage, and his pedigree was as proudly and hotly upheld
as that of many a prince whose inheritance depends on his
family tree. The young heir up at the castle had scarcely
been welcomed with greater exultation, or had more unremit-
ting care and attention bestowed on him than was lavished by