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A great part of these grounds had been given to cultivation, and strips of potatoe-land and corn were scattered here and there. The rooks cawed loudly in the trees above; mixed with their hoarse cries I heard a lively strain of music. It was Alfred's birthday. The young people, the Etonians, and children of the neighbouring gentry, held a mock fair, to which all the country people were invited.
Then we marched on some miles to the top of a steep ridge looking down upon a lower plain, the road crossing a deep ravine at the bottom by a big steel bridge. We took up a commanding position at the top, overlooking the bridge, so as to cover the convoy while it descended and crossed. An attack seems likely, a curious birthday treat! 4 P.M. Nothing has happened.
"If you please, Mrs. Horton, I have brought back the mitts Lucia gave me for a birthday present," responded Rebby, her voice faltering a little. "Oh! Don't they fit? Why, that is a shame. Well, lay them on the step," said Mrs. Horton, wondering why Rebby should look so flushed and warm, and why she had not given the mitts to Lucia.
When June came Liddy felt that a change in the morose current of their lives must be made, and in her peculiar way set about to carry out her idea. She knew his fiftieth birthday came during that month, and when the day arrived she said to him: "Come home early to-night, father, I have a great, big favor to ask of you."
Uncle Henry probably supposed that the cure of his nephew's irritating laugh was the foundation stone of that successful career, which it would soon be time to discuss in detail. The few months between now and Mark's sixteenth birthday would soon pass, however dreary the restrictions of Haverton House, and then it would be time to go and talk to Mr.
But boys of practical minds and sound bodies do not dream at all, unless it be after a feast, and most of them can stand even that without having nightmare, unless two feasts come near together, like Christmas and a birthday within the week.
There were long tables in the billiard-room for the farming class; and for the quality there was the horse-shoe table in the dining-room, as at Roderick's birthday dinner. But on this occasion the table was decorated only with hardy ferns and flowers. The orchids were not allowed to appear. Roderick noticed the omission.
"It's all that," she replied, without even looking at it. "My daughter bought it for me as a birthday present. Look!" and with these words he handed the beautiful artistic masterpiece to Teresa. She took the pipe by the stem and dashed it so violently against the iron foot of the stove that it flew to pieces in every direction. Mr. Meyer's mouth fell at both corners dismally.
He laughed, and answered: 'That, my Love, though strictly correct, would hardly, I fear, be thought judicious! It was suggested that my tenth birthday, which followed this public announcement by a few days, would be a capital occasion for me to go through the ordeal.
"I thought that we might take a drive in the Champs Elysees to try the carriage." "Go without me," said Camusot in a melancholy voice; "I shall not dine with you. It is my wife's birthday, I had forgotten that." "Poor Musot, how badly bored you will be!" she said, putting her arms about his neck.
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