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The American Senator

CHAPTER XXII
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He afterwards declared that he had not strength to lift himself out of the saddle.
The mare lay for a moment;--then blundered out, rolled over him, jumped on to her feet, and lunging out kicked her rider on the head as he was rising.

Then she went away and afterwards jumped the palings into Rufford Park.

That evening she was shot.
The man when kicked had fallen back close under the feet of Miss Trefoil's horse.

She screamed and half-fainting, fell also;--but fell without hurting herself.

Lord Rufford of course stopped, as did also Mr.Hampton and one of the whips,--with several others in the course of a minute or two.


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