"No," he said.

"I prefer not.

They are rarely clean." Gregory looked at him in dismay.
"Mother!" he exclaimed.
"Janet," whispered Mrs.Avory, who knew her youngest son, "take Gregory away, and keep him out of sight till they go." "But we," Mr.Amory resumed, "will examine the caravan.

I suppose there was no inventory." "No," said Mrs.Avory.
"Very unfortunate," he muttered, "and very unsystematic.

However, we must hope for the best;" and so saying he led the way toward the yard, with his meek little sons, who had said not a word, but appeared to wish themselves well out of the affair, behind him.
Kink had already unharnessed Moses, and the Slowcoach stood at rest.
Mr.Amory first went to examine a place on the wheel where a gate-post had removed some of the paint, and he then put a foot on the step; but Diogenes sprang up and growled so seriously that he withdrew.
"Please remove the dog," he said.
While this was being done, and the father and his two sons were inside, Janet explained the situation to the others.