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The s were not very thick; but

across her shoulders the mare was exceptionally broad, a

peculiarity specially striking now that she was lean fros below the knees looked no

thicker than a finger from in front, but were extraordinarily

thick seen froether, except across

the shoulders, as it were, pinched in at the sides and pressed

out in depth But she had in the highest degree the quality that

otten: that quality was _blood_, the blood

_that tells_, as the English expression has it The muscles stood

up sharply under the network of sinews, covered with the

delicate, mobile skin, soft as satin, and they were hard as bone

Her clean-cut head, with proht, spirited eyes,

broadened out at the open nostrils, that showed the red blood in

the cartilage within About all her figure, and especially her

head, there was a certain expression of energy, and, at the same

time, of softness She was one of those creatures which seem

only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not

allow them to