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a famous pedestrian, and a perfectly

fearless horsewoman. To see the little

damsel on a horse, looking so bold and

so radiant, was to fall 111 love with 'her
at once.

As for her early history, she had

learned it in part from her old nurse,
who had been promptly discharged for

speaking of the forbidden subject; but

this was so long ago, and the subject

having never again been alluded to in
her presence, she had almost forgotten it.

The Doctor flattered himself that she

had entirely forgotten it, and that there

was no one with whom she ever came in
contact, except her mother and himself,

who remembered how and when he had

found her, and no solicitation would have
drawn from him a description of the

pretty scene of the occasion of their first

meeting, which he so well remembered.