The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 143Atlantic Monthly Company, 1929 - American essays |
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... horse lover takes his first tentative steps into this half - gypsy land of paddock and race track , auction room and hunting field , when he first feels within him the stirrings of a strange desire , and learns to know that it is the ...
... horse lover takes his first tentative steps into this half - gypsy land of paddock and race track , auction room and hunting field , when he first feels within him the stirrings of a strange desire , and learns to know that it is the ...
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... horse for me . Blinded as I was , at the moment , by the fervor of my longing , I did not regard Tobias as anything more than an instrument to this end . The negotiations proved long and difficult . I was still inexperienced enough to ...
... horse for me . Blinded as I was , at the moment , by the fervor of my longing , I did not regard Tobias as anything more than an instrument to this end . The negotiations proved long and difficult . I was still inexperienced enough to ...
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... horse in the races in which we entered him . As Tobias led me on through all the stages of our progress , and showed me how inevitably we should reach that crowning hour when we should flash under the wire a winner amid the frenzied ...
... horse in the races in which we entered him . As Tobias led me on through all the stages of our progress , and showed me how inevitably we should reach that crowning hour when we should flash under the wire a winner amid the frenzied ...
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