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Lenox's young brother and his friends had now to be shown the Slowcoach, which they pronounced "top hole," and then Moses was inspected in his stable; and, this being done, they were ready for the river or, rather, for the ices at a pastrycook's shop in the High Street called the High which were, to precede the river. Mr.
We had one evening with real gipsies, but Janet would not allow me to go inside their caravan, because of fleas and things. But I could see through the door that it was not so attractive as the Slowcoach. I wish this journey would never end, but I fear it has to do so on Tuesday, which draws nearer every moment. "I am, "Your grateful and admiring friend,
And now, if your man has finished, I expect you'd like to be gettin' on, or the others will be nervous about you." And so, after Hester had chosen Circe, they all said very affectionate farewells, and the Slowcoach rumbled forth again. Meanwhile, what of Janet and Robert and Mary and Jack and Horace? They had had no adventures at all nothing but scenery and a pleasant picnic.
The only one of them that was not hungry was Mary, who was too hot and tired of cooking to be able to eat much. In spite of this huge and momentous dinner, all the children went out on Sunday afternoon to explore the neighbourhood, except Hester, who said she had something very important to do and begged to be allowed to remain alone in the Slowcoach. Kink said that he would stay there, too.
But, as Halleck dealt directly with his other immediate subordinates, Grant simply became the fifth wheel of the Halleckian slowcoach, which, after twenty days of preparation, began, with most elaborate precautions, its crawl toward Corinth. Grant's position became so nearly unbearable that he applied more than once for transfer to some other place. But this was refused.
But the gentleman was in a hurry; the gentleman always is; he could not wait for that old slowcoach of a Clubfoot to mature his plans for getting into England, securing the document, and getting out again.
Robert had been lying awake thinking the same thing, but Kink had gone off with Moses to the nearest farm, and the Slowcoach was far too heavy to move without the horse. Diogenes whimpered on his chain. If he could have spoken, he would have said, like Gregory, "I hate thunder." "Perhaps it won't get very near us," said Robert. "We must chance it, anyway."
"Me cousin Henerietta does that; I only has the breakfast itself to get, an' there's not much trouble in that, on'y I'm such a slowcoach, an' someway I don't know how it was my wits went wool-gatherin' this mornin'."
Good afternoon." It was not, however, the end of the visit, for at that instant the sound of heavy wheels was heard, and cheers in the street, and, looking out of the window, Mrs. She pulled up stiff on observing the strangers. "Janet, dear," said Mrs. Avory, "there has been a serious mistake. The Slowcoach is not ours at all. It belongs to this gentleman's children." Janet gasped.
Mordan, whom Gregory thought both a nice and a pretty lady, leapt out of the milk-cart and ran up the steps of the Slowcoach, and mother and daughter hugged each other for quite two minutes, while Gregory looked at young Daniel Wilson, and Patricia began to cry afresh this time because she was happy. Mrs. Mordan was happy too.
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