So willing, even anxious, was he to go now, that Joseph had to hold
him quite tight.

Then as he laughed at his own fancies, a new fear came upon him lest
the horse should break his wind, and Mr. Raymond have good cause
to think he had not been using him well. He might even suppose
that he had taken advantage of his new instructions, to let out
upon the horse some of his pent-up dislike; whereas in truth,
it had so utterly vanished that he felt as if Ruby, too, had been
his friend all the time.



CHAPTER XXXIV

IN THE COUNTRY


BEFORE the end of the month, Ruby had got respectably thin,
and Diamond respectably stout. They really began to look fit
for double harness.

Joseph and his wife got their affairs in order, and everything ready
for migrating at the shortest notice; and they felt so peaceful
and happy that they judged all the trouble they had gone through
well worth enduring. As for Nanny, she had been so happy ever
since she left the hospital, that she expected nothing better,
and saw nothing attractive in the notion of the country.
At the same time, she had not the least idea of what the word
country meant, for she had never seen anything about her but streets