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"When they go to climb back why don't you buck some more? Now that
they're off--keep them off."
"It's not so easy. You see, I've been trained all my life to carry
them. You can't break off a thing like that in an instant. A priest
doesn't turn atheist in a night ... and this Family Tradition
business is like a religion. It gets into your bones. You RESPECT it.
You feel it demanding things of you and you can't refuse. ... I
suppose there is a duty."
"To yourself," she said, quickly.
"To THEM--and to the--the future. ... But I bucked them off once.
Maybe they'll never ride so hard again, and maybe they'll try to
break me by riding harder. ... Until to-day I never had a notion of
fighting back--but I'm going to give them a job of it now. ... There
are things I WILL do. They sha'n't always have their way. Right now,
Miss Frazer, I've broken with the whole thing. They may be able to
fetch me back. I don't know. ... Sometime I'll have to go. When
father's through I'd have to go, anyhow--to head the business.


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