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The Night Horseman

CHAPTER II
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"She is perfectly gentle and has a very easy gait.

I'm sure you'll have not the slightest trouble with her." "And you ?" "I'll find something about town; it doesn't matter what." "This," said the doctor, "is most remarkable.

You choose your mounts at random ?" "But you will go ?" she insisted.
"Ah, yes, the trip to the ranch!" groaned the doctor.

"Let me see: the physical obstacles to such a trip while many are not altogether insuperable, I may say; in the meantime the moral urge which compels me towards the ranch seems to be of the first order." He sighed.

"Is it not strange, Miss Cumberland, that man, though distinguished from the lower orders by mind, so often is controlled in his actions by ethical impulses which override the considerations of reason?
An observation which leads us towards the conclusion that the passion for goodness is a principle hardly secondary to the passion for truth.


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