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Debate.
Sedet post equitem atra cura ——
Still though the headlong cavalier,
O’er rough and smooth, in wild career,
Seems racing1 with the wind;
His sad companion — ghastly pale,
And darksome as a widow’s veil,
CARE— keeps her seat behind.
HORACE.
Well was it that night for Mowbray, that he had always piqued2 himself on his horses, and that the animal on which he was then mounted was as sure-footed and sagacious as he was mettled and fiery3. For those who observed next day the print of the hoofs4 on the broken and rugged5 track through which the creature had been driven at full speed by his furious master, might easily see, that in more than a dozen of places the horse and rider had been within a few inches of destruction. One bough6 of a gnarled and stunted7 oak-tree, which stretched across the road, seemed in particular to have opposed an almost fatal barrier to the horseman’s career. In striking his head against this impediment, the force of the blow had been broken in some measure by a high-crowned hat, yet the violence of the shock was sufficient to shiver the branch to pieces. Fortunately, it was already decayed; but, even in that state, it was subject of astonishment8 to every one that no fatal damage had been sustained in so formidable an encounter. Mowbray himself was unconscious of the accident.
Scarcely aware that he had been riding at an unusual rate, scarce sensible that he had ridden faster perhaps than ever he followed the hounds, Mowbray alighted at his stable door, and flung the bridle10 to his
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countenance
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eminence
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consummating
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faltering
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obstinately
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unintelligibly
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frightful
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bloody
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concur
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v.同意,意见一致,互助,同时发生 | |
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manly
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implement
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dice
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blot
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dishonour
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concealed
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conceal
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vice
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catastrophe
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