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by seeing her refresh herself by tossing off a stiff 

 glass of grog afterwards. We know Mrs. Thornton 

 rode a race over Knavesmere against Mr. Flint — but 

 who was Mrs. Thornton ? Probably, in herself, a 

 very amiable woman : the greater pity then, and the 

 less excuse was there, for the Colonel encouraging 

 such an exhibition, before a gaping multitude. In a 

 private park, with only her friends and acquaintances 

 as lookers-on, exhibiting the speed of her favourite 

 horse, a lady might do so with impunity ; but on a 

 public race- course, the very lowest condemned the 

 act, though they indulged their wonder and curiosity 

 in going to see it. 



"While on the subject of making money by horses, 

 though the doing so is quite at variance with general 

 ideas of propriety, as a female ; still, if a lady has by 

 her own act produced perfection, there can be no 

 harm, or is there anything unfeminine, in her parting 

 with her horse to some one of larger fortune than her 

 own : but the offer and the acceptation of it require 

 a little nice management ; and if both are gentle- 

 women, such would be sure to be the case, and in 



