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For the credit of muscular Christianity, one must say that it was not her weight, but the tumult in his own inner man, which made her bearer totter. Nevertheless, if one is wholly unused to the exercise, the carrying a healthy young English girl weighing a good eight stone, is as much as most men can conveniently manage.

— Thomas Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)

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Tom Brown is carrying his future wife, Mary Porter, who has sprained her ankle walking in the woods.

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