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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: and little Dorothy (Dolly they called her) was her mother over again,
at eight years old. They were all wonderfully fond of each other;
I never knew such a happy, merry family before or since. Jerry had
a cab of his own, and two horses, which he drove and attended to himself.
His other horse was a tall, white, rather large-boned animal
called "Captain". He was old now, but when he was young
he must have been splendid; he had still a proud way of holding his head
and arching his neck; in fact, he was a high-bred, fine-mannered,
noble old horse, every inch of him. He told me that in his early youth
he went to the Crimean War; he belonged to an officer in the cavalry,
and used to lead the regiment. I will tell more of that hereafter.
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