"Unless they have some one standing behind
them with a whip, they cannot be trusted to do what they are told.
It is not that they are not willing, but that they are stupid. No
one would believe that people could be so stupid. They drive me
well nigh to madness sometimes, and it is the more irritating
because, against stupidity, one is powerless. Beating a man or
knocking him down may do him good if he is obstinate, or if he is
careless, but when he is simply stupid it only makes him more
stupid than before. You might as well batter a stone wall.
"You slept well and breakfasted well, Captain Carstairs?"
"Excellently well, thank you. What superb horses you have, doctor."
"Yes. I like travelling fast. Life is too short to throw away time
in travelling. A busy man should always keep good horses."
"If he can afford to do so," Charlie said with a laugh. "I should
say that every one, busy or not, would like to sit behind such
horses as these, and, as you say, it would save a good deal of time
to one who travelled much. But three such horses as these would
only be in the reach of one with a very long purse."
"They were bred here. Their sire was one of three given by the king
of England to the czar. The dams were from the imperial stables at
Vienna.
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