I'm a regular plodder, you see; so's Samuel." "Is he, sir ?" I said, for he evidently wanted me to speak.
"Yes, a regular plodder.

Well, there, my boy, we'll see.

Don't you be in a hurry; wait and see if your relatives are going to do anything better for you.

If they are not, don't you be in a hurry." But I was in a hurry, for the idea of coming to that garden, living there, and learning all about the flowers and fruit, excited me, longing as I was for some change.
"Yes, yes," he said, "wait, wait;" and he looked at me, and then about him in the slow meditative manner peculiar to gardeners; "we'll see, we'll see, wait till you know whether your people are going to do anything for you." "But, indeed, sir," I began.
"Yes, yes, I know, boy," he replied; but we must wait.

"Perhaps they've planted a business bulb for you, and we must wait and see whether it is going to shoot and blossom.