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I like you better when you are not quite so pretty, for you really were disgustingly conceited; weren't you now? You can't deny it." "Oh, Peggy Saville, and so were you! I saw that the first moment you came into the woom. You flared up like a Turkey cock if anyone dared to offend your dignity, and you were always widing about on your high horse, tossing your head, and using gweat long words."
He felt fear, where Diana, in all truth, did not know the meaning of the word. He shivered visibly when he was lifted on to Greased Lightning's back. Diana called out to him in an encouraging and cheery voice. "Don't forget you is a giant," she said. "Think, of yous sword and yous belt. Now then, gee up! pretty horse; I only wishes I was widing you."
You had best let Orion jump off this morning, 'cos he's tired. I'll talk to him all about widing to-morrow. Let him get down now, p'ease, big man." "Not until he has been twice round the circus," said Uncle Ben. "You stand aside, missy, or Greased Lightning may tread on you." But Diana was not to be so easily restrained. She now flew up to Uncle Ben and tried to pull his big whip from his hand.
'And a little seat in fwont, with an iwon wail, for the dwiver, added his Lordship. 'I dwove it over to Bwistol the other morning, in a cwimson coat, with two servants widing a quarter of a mile behind; and confound me if the people didn't wush out of their cottages, and awest my pwogwess, to know if I wasn't the post. Glorwious glorwious!
Me and Blanche were coming home just now, and we saw her and Tom widing down the hill on his sled, and then he dwagged her ever so far!" cried Maud, with her mouth full. "You did n't?" and Fanny dropped her fork with a scandalized face. "Yes, I did, and liked it ever so much," answered Polly, looking anxious but resolute. "Did any one see you?" cried Fanny. "Only some little girls, and Tom."
Now, G'eased Lightning, he'll do anything for me, and so what I say is this let Orion wide him, and if he begins to dance about and get sort of fidgety, why, I'll stwoke him down. You know I could pwactice widing a little on Pole Star in the morning." "To be sure you could, missy."
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