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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: tens of thousands of good horses--not such ponies as you breed
here. At the horse fair at Fecamp my sorrel would be lost in the
crowd. Here in the south you will not meet his match in a long
day's journey.'
'Do not make too sure of that,' the man replied, his eyes bright
with triumph and the dram. 'What would you say if I showed you a
better--in my own stable?'
I saw that his words sent a kind of thrill through his other
hearers, and that such of them as understood for two or three of
them talked their PATOIS only--looked at him angrily; and in a
twinkling I began to comprehend. But I affected dullness, and
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