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Updated: May 15, 2025
I don't want any harm to come to you; but if you insist on that little chap, that aint a patch on you, riding Greased Lightning, why, there aint nothing for it but for you to ride Pole Star." "You don't 'uppose I's fwightened of Pole Star? Why, he's a weal beauty," said Diana. "He's the " The man arrested the words on his lips. Diana had thrown down her whip and rushed across the stage.
"I'm going with them," she continued, "and Jack will drive. They are exactly the kind of children Ben wants. Now then, little missy, jump in. Ah, here you are! You'll be glad of the drive, won't you?" "When will we get back to Wectory?" asked Diana. "In about an hour, missy." "Come 'long, Orion," said Diana, "you sit next me. Hold my hand, poor little boy, case you is fwightened.
"Exactly: and you wecommended a sea voyage, with a medical attendant to watch his diet, and contwol his habits. Well, she took other advice, and the youth is worse; so now she is fwightened, and a month ago she asked me to pwopose to you to sail about with Tadcastah; and she offered me a thousand pounds a year.
"Don't be fwightened, Orion; time's nearly up," whispered the gay, brave little voice in his ear. The horses flew, the children moved as if they were puppets, and all might now have been well if at that moment Diana herself Diana the fearless, the brave, the unconquerable had not slipped, slipped at the very moment when she was springing through one of the rings.
Then the pair left the room, locking the door behind them. "What does it all mean?" said Orion. "I don't know," said Diana; "but I aren't fwightened; that aren't me." Her little voice shook as she spoke, and she had great difficulty in keeping the tears back from her big, black eyes.
"Fwightened?" replied Diana; "that aren't me." She turned her back and strode back to Orion. "'Member you is a giant," she said, in a whisper; "and giants never is fwightened." The man laughed again. "Well, they are a queer little pair," he said. "I tell you what it is, Rodesia Lee; I'll give you a pund apiece for 'em. Come, now; not a penny more."
He said I was too young yet, you know; but I aren't fwightened," she added. "I don't mind a bit sitting on the back of G'eased Lightning. But what a funny name!" "Right you are!" said the man. "You shall have your ride. I can see that you have plenty of pluck, young 'un. Come along, then, little missy. Tom, you go and bring out Greased Lightning this minute."
Then she looked up at Fortune, and raised her brow in a puzzled manner. "I aren't fwightened of G'eased Lightning," she said. A smile broke over her little face, then the light of reason once more faded, and she entered the dark region of delirium and danger.
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