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"Oh, well, you can have a catapult if you like," said Hector, with lordly disdain. "It doesn't matter to _me_, and it certainly won't matter to any one or anything else. You'll never hit anything -- girls never do. They can't throw a stone properly."
"You're very unkind, and -- and -- very horrid," said Dolly, nearly crying. "It's very mean and un -- it's not at all like knights long ago, always to be saying mocking things of girls."