Seven Days In New Crete (Penguin Modern Classics) - Plot & Excerpts
Sapphire and the two brothers were returning from Court. She rode side-saddle and looked splendid: not in the least like one of those berry-faced women in long riding habits who used to ride side-saddle in the days of my childhood, but rather like ‘the lady upon a white horse in the Caldecott picture book. The childish simplicity of the New Cretan scene and the stern rules of propriety that guarded it invited constant quotation from the nursery classics. ‘Rings on her fingers and bells at her toes!’ I waved to the party but nobody looked up; they were all too busy soothing their jittery horses. ‘Strange,’ I thought. ‘After a longish trot to Dunrena in the morning and back again in the afternoon, those hacks ought to be manageable enough. They look as though they’d suddenly run into a steam-roller – how horses hate steam-rollers! – but there could hardly be one on the roads in this post-civilized age.’ They turned into the yard, dismounted, and handed the horses to the grooms.
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