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"Let me give you a ride," answered the little fellow, to change the subject. He insisted upon it, and soon Nan was on the sled behind Flossie, and Bert and Freddie were hauling them along where pulling was easy. This was great sport for Freddie, and he puffed and snorted like a real horse, and kicked up his heels, very much to Flossie's delight. "Gee-dap!" shrieked the little maiden.
"No, it isn't, dear!" said Nan, quickly putting her arms around her cousin. "Flossie does things so quickly, sometimes, that no one can watch her. But we'll get her out, for the water isn't deep." It was deep enough though, on that side of the boat, to be well over Flossie's head, and of course, plunging down from the height she did, she at once went under water.
Bobbsey, with a smile, hugging his "little fat fireman" and his "fat fairy," one after the other. "Where in the world have you been?" "Oh, we heard a hand organ and we went to look at the monkey and it chewed Flossie's hat and we're here!" gasped Freddie, all in one breath. "And I got a new hat, and you'll please pay for it, Daddy," added Flossie.
With one word Spinks had destroyed the effect he had calculated on from his honourable reticence. Perhaps it was because Flossie's thoughts had flown so far that her voice seemed to come from somewhere a long way off, too. "What would you think enough to marry on, then?" "Well, I shouldn't care to do it much under four hundred myself," he said guardedly.
What a good time the children had, with the sewing-table for a sideboard, and the lap-table fixed firmly across Flossie's chair. "Are you sure you aren't getting too tired, dear?" asked Miss Fletcher of her invalid, doubtfully. "Wouldn't you rather the waitress poured?"
Confound it all, what a lucky fellow he was with the women any way! Scattering her letter to the frost, he mushed the dogs into a swinging lope and headed for his cabin. It was to be a masquerade, and he had to dig up the costume used at the Opera House a couple of months before. Also, he had to shave and to eat. Thus it was that he, alone of all interested, was unaware of Flossie's proximity.
They belonged to a society whose object was to lure the London public by the force of example towards the adoption of the early Greek fashions and the simpler Greek attitudes. A friend of Flossie's had thrown in her lot with them, but could never be induced to abandon her umbrella. They also, as Joan told herself, were reformers.
"Only to have a race you have to let your balloon sail off, without any string fast to it, and you will not get it back again." At first Freddie would not hear of that, but finally he and Flossie became tired of the toy circus balloons, and came to Bert to beg him to make a race for them. Bert cut the string off both balloons. Freddie's was red and Flossie's blue.
But how glad he was when they came home, and he could romp and play with them! One day Flossie's teacher said to the class: "Now, children, you have been very good this week, and you have known your lessons well, so I think it is time we had a little fun." "Oh, are you going to let Snap come to school again?" asked Edna Blake.
Tracy, take Miss Garston into the morning room, and do your best to help her. And Mrs. Maberley trotted away as fast as she could, while Tracy ushered me into a bright snug-looking room and asked me very civilly what she could do for me. Tracy was a handy, sensible woman, and in a few minutes I had managed, with her help, to strap up poor Flossie's leg in the most successful manner.
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