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Lady Wexmire, Lord Wexmire...
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...Lord George.
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They stared.
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Staring at us with their critical eyes.
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"To them", "we were no more alive..."
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...than the bits of harness on our backs.
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Look at the long legs
on the chestnut mare.
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What a hunter shed make.
Shed fly over the jumps.
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You must put these horses heads higher.
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Theyre not accustomed
to the bearing rein.
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Their groom said theyd never used
the rein on either one.
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-Didnt he, York?
-He did, my lord.
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Be safer to bring them up by degrees.
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Pish-posh!
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These animals are not fit to be seen.
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One notch tighter wont kill them, will it?
York?
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As you wish, my lady.
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Reuben, attend to the mare.
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"When a bearing rein is tightened",
it pulls back your head...
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...so that you have to carry it
uncomfortably high.
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People think it makes a horse look fancy.
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But it made Ginger angry.
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This was a very grand place wed come to.
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"Three or four times the size"
of Birtwick Park...
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...but not at all pleasant...
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...if a horse may have an opinion.
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"Ordinarily", "we would have"
put our heads down and forward...
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...but not now.
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Now we had to pull with our heads up.
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Pain shot through our backs and legs.
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For what?
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For fashion.
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Rein them tighter, York.
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As you wish, my lady.
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Reuben, shorten the bearing rein
on the mare.