A Wheel Within a Wheel by Frances Elizabeth Willard

Author:Frances Elizabeth Willard
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association

he is not immortal he probably is not; if I think I am I may be sure I shall be, for is it not written in the law, 'According to thy faith be it unto thee'?"

Gradually I realized a consoling degree of mastery over Gladys; but nothing was more apparent to me than that we were not yet thoroughly acquainted—we had not summered and wintered together. I had not learned her kinks, and she was as full of them as the most spirited mare that sweeps the course on a Kentucky race-track. Although I have seen a race but once (and that was in the Champs Elysees, Paris, a quarter of a century ago), I am yet so much interested in the fact that it is a Flora Temple, a Goldsmith Maid, a Maud S., a Sunol, a California Maid that often stands first on the record, that I would fain have named my shying steed after one of these; but as she was a gift from Lady Henry Somerset this seemed invidious in me as a Yankee woman, and so I called her Gladys, having in view the bright spirit of the donor, the exhilarating motion of the machine, and the gladdening effect of its acquaintance and use on my health and disposition.

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