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pretensions,) such will often pretend to disregard 

 what they cannot possess ; they would far more show 

 themselves fitted for better things, by honestly allow- 

 ing they appreciated the luxury of possessing them. 

 When expressing themselves otherwise, they are 

 actuated by the same false and mistaken principle 

 as the low-born man, when he expresses his contempt 

 of high birth ; by which, when he does it, he merely 

 exhibits mind and ideas low as his origin. 



As I before remarked, women are, more or less, 

 one and all, much mistaken in what is suffering to 

 animals, and on some points it is even commendable 

 their being so, or at all events of little consequence 

 were they to remain in the error, for it is one that 

 could produce no suffering ; for instance, a short 

 time since a lady at a race meeting observed to me, 

 that "the day was dreadfully hot for the poor horses 

 that had to run." Now this was in a very great de- 

 gree a mistaken sympathy, but the amiability of 

 mind and thought that caused it, made a very lovely 

 face look lovelier still; and I remarked with pleasure 

 the flush of pride that, on hearing the remark, lit 



