Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Graham was meditating, with skepticism, Ernestine's information that
Paula Forrest was thirty-eight, when she turned to the colts and
pointed her riding whip at a black yearling nibbling at the spring
green.


"Look at that level rump, Dick," she said, "and those trotting feet
and pasterns." And, to Graham: "Rather different from Nymph's long
wrists, aren't they? But they're just what I was after." She laughed a
little, with just a shade of annoyance. "The dam was a bright sorrel--
almost like a fresh-minted twenty-dollar piece--and I did so want a
pair out of her, of the same color, for my own trap. Well, I can't say
that I exactly got them, although I bred her to a splendid, sorrel
trotting horse. And this is my reward, this black--and, wait till we
get to the brood mares and you'll see the other, a full brother and
mahogany brown. I'm so disappointed."

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