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her more than anything he could gain by her enduring 

 actual suffering." 



No sensible person will care to drive fifteen miles 

 in an hour or seventy in a day, except as a feat ; but 

 if you wish to travel forty or fifty miles, it is a great 

 thing to have a roadster who is capable of going 

 seventy or eighty. To ride behind a tired horse is 

 fatiguing and depressing in the extreme, whereas 

 there is a sense of exhilaration in covering a long 

 distance which is yet well within the known powers 

 of your steed. In fact, a good roadster is something 

 like a satisfactory bank account, — your pleasure in 

 his capacity is great almost in proportion as the drafts 

 which you make upon it are small. 



