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For some time nobody spoke. Only Boxer remained on his feet. He fidgeted to and fro, swishing his long black tail against his sides and occasionally uttering a little whinny of surprise. 🔊

Never had the farmand with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own farm, every inch of it their own propertyappeared to the animals so desirable a place. 🔊

They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick. 🔊

It had been overlooked at the time when the house was first occupied. That night there came from the farmhouse the sound of loud singing, in which, to everyone's surprise, the strains of Beasts of England were mixed up. 🔊

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