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"But, mother," said Jack, "do you dare to disturb them now when they are asleep? That young 'un with the black eyes is such a fury; seemed to me as if she was never goin' off." "She's all right now," said Mother Rodesia. "She's just dead tired. Of course, if I had had my way, I'd have put a little of that syrup into their soup Mother Winslow's Syrup but Mother Bridget wouldn't have it.
They all three walked for over a mile, and the wood seemed to get darker and denser, and the children's little feet more and more tired. Orion also began to complain that the hole inside him was getting bigger and bigger; but Mother Rodesia, now that she had got them to go with her, said very few words, and did not take the least notice of their complaints.
Diana never was fwightened; that isn't her." Orion scrambled also into the cart, and the two children huddled up close together. Mother Rodesia got in with them, and sat down at the opposite side, with her knees huddled up close to her chin. The man called Jack mounted the driver's seat, whacked the pony with two or three hard touches of his whip and away they bounded.
I think she would just about do. You come along here for a minute, Jack, and let me talk to you." The man called Jack moved a few steps away, and Mother Rodesia followed him. They began to talk together in low and earnest voices.
"Oh, my tumtum," said Orion, pressing his hand to that part of his little body with great solemnity. "How soon will the supper be over? and how soon can we get back home?" asked Diana. "That depends on where your home is, my pretty little dear," said Mother Rodesia. "It's at Wectory, stoopid woman." "I don't know that place, miss." "Don't you know my Uncle William Dolman?"
"May I sit on your lap?" she said. Mother Rodesia made a place for her at once. "Put your arm wound me, p'ease; I is still a teeny bit s'eepy." "You lay your head against my breast, little love, and you'll go off into a beautiful sleep, and I'll keep you nice and warm, for hot as the days are, it's chilly in the mornin's."
"You had best close up the bargain and be quick about it," he said; "for not one penny more will you drag out of me. I'll give you a gold sov. for each of 'em, and that's as much as I can manage. They will take a sight of training, and then there's the risk." "Very well," said Mother Rodesia, "I suppose I had best do it; only they are worth more.
"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."
You can call 'im Uncle Ben; and if you do just what he says, why, you'll be as happy as the day is long." "Look here," said the man; "you stop your talk, Rodesia. Before I makes myself an uncle to these kids I must see what sort they are. You stand up along here, little gal, and let me examine you." Diana scrambled instantly to her feet and went straight up to the man.
I is Diana, and this is Orion, and we is both very big peoples indeed." At that moment Mother Rodesia came forward. "They need not go into the tent," she said to the old woman; "I can manage better than that. Just you help lift 'em into the cart; it's a dark night, and there'll be no stars, and we can get off as far as " Here she dropped her voice, and Diana could not hear the next words.
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