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nickname "Come in," said Flossie cheerfully. While everybody was occupied with the pleasures of the hunt, she gave rein to her horses, encouraged them with voice and whip, and soon their quickened pace became a gallop; then, taking the bit between their teeth, they flew along at such a speed, that the chariot seemed borne by the winds, and the eye could scarcely follow it. Too late the poor Queen repented of her rashness: "What could I have been thinking of?" she said. "How could I have imagined that I should be able to control such wild and fiery horses? Alas! what will become of me? What would the King do if he knew the great danger I am in, he who loves me so dearly, and who only sent me away that I might be in greater safety! This is my gratitude for his tender care!" The air resounded with her piteous lamentations; she invoked Heaven, she called the fairies to her assistance, but it seemed that all the powers had abandoned her. The chariot was overthrown; she had not sufficient strength to jump quickly enough to the ground, and her foot was caught between the wheel and the axle-tree; it was only by a miracle she was saved.,“There’s only one way to find out, isn’t there?” said Bob. “That’s to go through it. Are you ready?”,"Indeed! And am I ever to learn the reason of your extraordinary behavior?",“Yet he has more mind than Flash.”,There was a shout of amazed laughter, but Patricia persisted:，"Why?" he says, with suppressed passion. "Because, each time I do, I know myself to be—what I am! Your truthful eyes are mirrors in which my heart lies bare." With an effort he recovers himself, and, drawing his breath quickly, grows calm again. "If I were to gaze at you as often as I should desire, you would probably deem me impertinent," he says, with a lapse into his former half-insolent tone.，"Inside the gate," asked Jen, "or outside, on the road?"，“You know that I won’t tell Whitney about your poker playing. What I am going to tell him is that you’re a traitor to the Service.”"Oh—well—don't," interrupts Mrs. Geoffrey, hastily.

"The name of the person who committed the murder.","Is Miss Acton eating her dinner?","Then let her see the police, sir, although I don't agree with you. She is not the woman to put a rope round her own neck--black as it is.",“You’re whistling,” said Bob shortly.,“Doesn’t your father believe in the project?”,"For a day or two only, madam," he answered, with his face flushed with disappointment, for he had hoped his candour would have produced a very different effect. "But I may tell you frankly that Mr Eagle and[Pg 256] the crew know that you are on board, and I should have played my part ill had I not provided that nothing you can say, no entreaties that you can make, will persuade them that your elopement is not voluntary.",For him—strange as it may seem—she had ever but little love. But when he married, and George, the eldest boy, was given into her arms, and as he grew and developed and showed himself day by day to be the very prototype of his grandsire, she "took to him," as the servants said, and clung to him—and afterwards to his memory—until her dying day.,Elinor intercepted them at the bottom just as they were preparing for a third flight.,“There aint no such things as fairies anyways.” Peter Stolway always was a doubting Thomas, so Betty tossed her head in scorn as she replied, “There is so, cos I’ve saw them with my very own eyes.”,There was silence for a moment and then Bob asked quietly.,“You must remember I got the boat-hook,” urged Johnny.,Then the chief sang and danced, and afterward he gave the Wolf chief's friend the medicine. It was a long knife and many scalps were tied on the handle. "This," said he, "is for the All Friends.".