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she may desire it. No riding master will give 

 lessons to a person who behaves so. He would 

 lose more than he gained by it, no matter how 

 long she took lessons. And they knew every- 

 body in a riding-school, although they won't 

 gossip. I'd as soon try to cheat a Pinkerton 

 agency." 



"I know one thing," Nell says, as you walk 

 homeward *. " I'm going to take an exercise ride 

 between every two lessons, and I'm going 

 to ride a new horse every time, if I can get him, 

 and I'm going to do what I'm told, and I shall 

 not stop trotting at the next lesson, even if I 

 feel as if I should drop out of the saddle. I've 

 learned so much from an exercise ride." 



