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Mr. and Mrs. Mayhew had gone on a visit to some friends at the other end of the county, and the young people, left to their own devices, instituted a riding-party into Manister. Alice was mounted on a new purchase -- a perfect animal in appearance and manner -- a bay mare with black points, who fully justified the name she had brought with her -- "Look at Me" -- and the three hundred guineas Sir Reginald had paid to her late owner. Cardigan he reserved for himself, and Cardigan, in mad spirits, kept plunging and shying and indulging in formidable antics all the way down the avenue, setting an infamous example to the other horses.
"I must take it out of this fellow," said his master, sending him at a low fence that separated the road from a long series of large grass fields.