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With regard to horses , distrust was your only clew . But scepticism , as we know , can never be thoroughly applied , else life would come to a standstill : something we must believe in and do , and whatever that something may be called , it is virtually our own judgment , even when it seems like the most slavish reliance on another . Fred believed in the excellence of his bargain , and even before the fair had well set in , had got possession of the dappled gray , at the price of his old horse and thirty pounds in addition — only five pounds more than he had expected to give . But he felt a little worried and wearied , perhaps with mental debate , and without waiting for the further gayeties of the horse - fair , he set out alone on his fourteen miles ’ journey , meaning to take it very quietly and keep his horse fresh . CHAPTER XXIV . “ The offender’s sorrow brings but small relief To him who wears the strong offence’s cross . ” — SHAKESPEARE : Sonnets . I am sorry to say that only the third day after the propitious events at Houndsley Fred Vincy had fallen into worse spirits than he had known in his life before . Not that he had been disappointed as to the possible market for his horse , but that before the bargain could be concluded with Lord Medlicote’s man , this Diamond , in which hope to the amount of eighty pounds had been invested , had without the slightest warning exhibited in the stable a most vicious energy in kicking , had just missed killing the groom , and had ended in laming himself severely by catching his leg in a rope that overhung the stable - board . There was no more redress for this than for the discovery of bad temper after marriage — which of course old companions were aware of before the ceremony . For some reason or other , Fred had none of his usual elasticity under this stroke of ill - fortune : he was simply aware that he had only fifty pounds , that there was no chance of his getting any more at present , and that the bill for a hundred and sixty would be presented in five days . Even if he had applied to his father on the plea that Mr . Garth should be saved from loss , Fred felt smartingly that his father would angrily refuse to rescue Mr . Garth from the consequence of what he would call encouraging extravagance and deceit . He was so utterly downcast that he could frame no other project than to go straight to Mr . Garth and tell him the sad truth , carrying with him the fifty pounds , and getting that sum at least safely out of his own hands . His father , being at the warehouse , did not yet know of the accident : when he did , he would storm about the vicious brute being brought into his stable ; and before meeting that lesser annoyance Fred wanted to get away with all his courage to face the greater .
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