He is also an avid photographer and falconer. Don't get him started talking about his birds because he won't stop for a while.

Amn’t I with you? Amn’t I your girl?

[…] a large portion of the pleasure this sport afforded him was derived from his unerring and bloodhoundish sense that this, of all topics, was the one which made me most truly uncomfortable.

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