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Vavasor, annoyed at the involuntary and natural enough nervousness he had shown, for it was nothing more, turned his annoyance on the Major, who by such an insignificant display of coolness, had gained so great an advantage over him in the eyes of the ladies, and made up his opinion that in every word he said about the horse of the Rajah of Rumtool he was romancing and that although there had been no slightest pretence to personal prowess in the narrative.
"Mind we don't forget to mention it as we go back," he said to Mark. "Thank you! How brave of you, major Marvel!" said Mrs. Raymount. The Major laughed with his usual merriment. "If it had been the horse of the Rajah of Rumtool," he said, "I should have been brave indeed only by this time there would have been nothing left of me to thank. A man would have needed courage to take him by the head!
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