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Marvin for the first ride of the season, but she had been annoyed by Arabella. She stood drumming on the window-pane, and wondering how to begin the lecture that she intended to give Arabella, that is, if Arabella would ever get her wraps off, and sit down. She turned from the window. "Well, I never saw such a slowpoke!" she cried. Arabella blinked.
Indeed, I'm not quite sure that Laura really knows her own mind as yet." Soon after that, Miss Meade requested to be conducted back into the ballroom, to find Greg, who was to be her next partner. "Now, good gracious, I hope I've really given Cadet Slowpoke a broad enough hint," thought Belle. "If he doesn't go ahead and speak to Laura now, it'll be because he doesn't care.
But Florence was skipping lightly away and she caroled over her shoulder, waving her hand in mocking farewell as she began to run: "Ole Mister Slowpoke can't catch me! Ole Mister Slowpoke couldn't catch a flea!"
"Here, put me aboard that dry dock, will you? Hustle! the thing's gathering way!" "A little late," observed a voice at the newcomer's elbow. "Yes, I hung around London Tower trying to see the crown jewels, then I broke for St. Paul's for a glimpse of Nelson's Monument, then I ran down to Marshalsea, where Little Dorrit's father make haste there, you slowpoke water-rat!
"I wonder why we did not think of it before. Here, you old slowpoke, get up!" and, whirling his horse around, he suddenly rode up behind his pack-horse and gave that animal a quick blow with his whip. The scheme worked splendidly; and the two boys were soon on their way again and moving at a considerably increased speed.
He saw her in the form of acres of land, live stock, farm buildings, and money in the bank. "Molasses," he thought; "yes, sir, molasses. Maple sugar." But when he looked at his son Thomas, he frowned. "Go on," he wanted to say, "go on, you slowpoke." Farmer Barly also frowned at Thomas Frye. He felt that he was being hurried. "She's well enough where she is," he thought. "She's young yet.
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