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"Well!" she said, gaily, "be you a-follering of me, or be I a- follering of you?" "I don't know! How do you do, Miss Thornton!" Peter said, with his delighted laugh. He drew to Susan the attention of a stout lady in purple velvet, beside him. "Mrs. Fox Miss Brown," said he, "and Miss Thornton Mrs. Fox." "Mrs. Fox," said Susan, pleasantly brief. "Miss Brown," said Mrs. Fox, with a wintry smile.
If her father were really here with the children, it might not be such a very easy task to find them. She was startled by a familiar, half-mocking, half-exultant voice at her elbow. She turned quickly, and there stood the sailor, Isaac Dent. "Ha, ha! sweetheart!" he said. "I wasn't long in a-follering of you up was I? And you're mine now, my beautiful Bet. You're mine, and no mistake."
"Down, Cinder and Flinder!" said the woman. "Down you brutes! Now, Patrick, what have you been up to? Whatever's that in your arms, and who's a-follering of yer?" "This yer's a babby," said the man, "and this yer's a girl. She," pointing to Flower, "wants to be took to the nearest town, and she have money to pay, she says." "Oh! she have money to pay?" said the wife of Micah Jones for it was she.
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