Don't you remember my mare?
I rode her before I went away.

I left her in old Sammy's charge, and he has been riding her every day." "And glad enough to do it, I am sure," said she, "for I have heard him say that the things he hates most in this world are dead legs.

'When I can't use mine,' he said, 'let me have some others that are alive.' This is such a pretty creature," she added, as Clewe was looking about for some place to which he might tie his animal, "that I have a great mind to learn to ride myself!" "A woman on a horse would be a queer sight," said he; and with this they went into the house.
The conference that morning in Mrs.Raleigh's library was a long and somewhat anxious one.

For several years the money of the Raleigh estate had been freely and generously expended upon the enterprises in hand at the Sardis Works, but so far nothing of important profit had resulted from the operations.

Many things had been carried on satisfactorily and successfully to various stages, but nothing had been finished; and now the two partners had to admit that the work which Clewe had expected to begin immediately upon his return from Europe must be postponed.
Still, there was no sign of discouragement in the voices or the faces--it may be said, in the souls--of the man and woman who sat there talking across a table.