No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions: rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over, take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty--I scarcely know in which light he regarded it.
Lloviese o hiciera viento, una vez pasadas las horas que dedicaba al estudio, tomaba el sombrero y seguido de Carlo, el viejo perro de caza, salía a cumplir su misión. Yo ignoraba si ésta le era agradable o si simplemente la consideraba como un deber.