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her more than anything he vould 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. 
