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"A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse. "
"Miss Dopping's cold had taken a terrible strong hold of her," according to the maid who issued bulletins at her hall door, and she sat cowering over the fire in what she called her "museum," wrapped in a woollen shawl, munching liquorice ball, and reminding herself that she was seventy-five years of age, and could not expect to live for ever!