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The Slowcoach

CHAPTER 20
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I hope they'll come again.

And now for a large tea, with plenty of cake for all but one of us." They would have liked to stay a long time, for Rod and Vernon were very kind and amusing, but Janet had Hester on her mind, left alone in the Slowcoach; and so directly tea was finished they said good-bye.
When Hester was told about their adventure, she said: "How silly you all are!" "Why ?" they asked indignantly.
"For two reasons," said Hester.

"One is that it is, of course, 'fresh woods.' Anyone ought to know that.

And the other is that we've got the 'Blue Poetry Book' with it in here in the caravan." "That doesn't matter," said Gregory.

"We met a jolly decent clergyman." What Hester's great business had been Janet soon learned, for as soon as they were alone Hester slipped some sheets of paper into Janet's hand and asked her to read them very privately.


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