The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
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make a vow before you begin Time-travelling. Do you know what a vow
is?" "Of course I do," Mollie replied; "I'm a Girl Guide." "I don't know what a Girl Guide is," said the other girl, wrinkling up her pretty forehead, "but a Time-traveller has to vow on her faith and honour never to say one single word about her adventures to any grown-up, either here or there. You must not ask them questions that will make them wonder things, however much you want to, because they don't understand, and would be almost sure to interfere. Will you vow?" "Yes, I will, but you must give me one moment to think. Where shall I travel to and how long shall I stay?" "You come along with me to my Time; I don't know how long you will stay. A year of our Time might be a minute of yours, or a minute of ours might be a year of yours, but you will be all right. Have you ever seen a dissolving view?" "That's a magic lantern, isn't it? Yes, Dick once had one. I think they are rather dull." "Oh no, not if they are properly done. Hugh--" she stopped and then began again. "You will step into a dissolving view of our Time. It just begins and ends anyhow, and you go out of it again." "But it's so _queer_," Mollie said doubtfully. "I never _heard_ of such a thing. I must be dreaming." |
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