74            SOCIETY AS I HAVE  FOUND  IT.

Not a Frenchman, with the exception of
the General, took that jump. After this,
the mere mention of fox hunting would set
the Frenchmen wild. It was cruel, but It
was sport.

Moral: Men should not attempt to do
what is not in them.

Passing two winters at Pau and the
summers at Baden-Baden, keeping four
horses at the former place, following the
hounds at least once a week, giving all
through the winter from one to two dinners
a week, with an English housekeeper, and
living as well as I could possibly live, with
the cost of my ball included, I did not
spend half the amount in living that I am
compelled to in New York. The ball cost
me but eight hundred dollars.