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“I thought you might like to have this.” And Johnny Blossom placed the pill box on the table and gazed expectantly into Aunt Grenertsen’s wrinkled face.,Captain Acton started from a reverie and looked at her attentively.,Keeler thrust out a huge hand. "That's me," he answered. "You're jest in time fer breakfast. It's nigh ready. Come 'round back an' wash up. Maurice, go put the teacher's horse in the stable an' give him a feed.","'Then,' sez he, 'wull yu do me the favor av deliverin' a missage to him an' kin ye go now?' says he.,With confidence that such a child will be a good story-book friend for our children, and a favorite with them as he is among his little compatriots, I send Johnny Blossom forth to meet his welcome.,"The thief and the murderer!",“Go and bring him now, so you can renovate his appearance before supper,” directed the mother.,"Walter Watland, sir," panted Fatty, glimpsing the light in the nick of time.,Maurice laughed.,“He’s going to make a fine engineer, Mr. Hazard. You’ll be proud of him.”,"Did she have both together on her knee?" asks Dorothy, vaguely. "She must have found it heavy.",When his parents were finally ready to go, Johnny Blossom thought they would walk home as usual, but, true as you live, Carlstrom was waiting with the handsome black horses and the landau with the damask cushions—a much grander equipage than the one which had brought them to Kingthorpe. They had had the brown horses then..