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it has made soldiers to ride, and little girls, and 

 other young ladies, and I am content. And 

 these others ? Are they not coming any 

 more ? " 



And every one of those cowardly girls hud- 

 dles away behind you, Esmeralda, and leaves 

 you to stammer, " Y-yes, sir, but you do s-scold 

 a little hard." 



" That," says the master, "is my big voice to 

 make the horses mind, and to make sure that 

 you hear it. And I told you the other day that 

 I spoke for your good, not for my own. If 

 I should say every tinle I want trotting, ' My 

 dear and much respected beautiful young ladies, 

 please to trot,' how much would you learn in a 

 morning ? " 



" We are ladies," says the society young lady, 

 "and we should be treated as ladies." 



"And you — or these others, since you 

 retire — are my pupils, and shall be treated as 

 my pupils," he says with a courtly bow and a 

 " Good morning," and you go away trying to 

 persuade the society young lady to reconsider. 



" Not that I care much whether she does or 

 not," Nell says confidentially to you. " She's too 



