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That whatever clothes you will put on to-morrow should be got ready to-night, so as to avoid any trouble in the morning." "Anything that comes first to hand," Pao-yue observed, "will do well enough! There's no getting, the whole year round, at the end of all the fuss of birthdays!"
This seemed to denote that Maltravers had come to reside; and the rector thought of Caroline, and was pleased at the notion. The next day was Cecilia's birthday, and birthdays were kept at Merton Rectory; the neighbouring children were invited. They were to dine on the lawn, in a large marquee, and to dance in the evening.
Mrs. said: "Don't you keep birthdays?" I said: "Yes; we keep both our birthdays on the same day." "On what day?" "The first day of the New Year." Mr. tried again: "You can't possibly be twins?" "I don't know." "Perhaps Helena knows?" "Not she!" Mrs. took the next question out of her husband's mouth: "Come, come, my dear! you must know how old you are." "Yes; I do know that. I'm eighteen."
I always keep all the birthdays. Did you remember mine?" "I don't think I did," he answered honestly. "But this is my twenty-first birthday, Evadne, and that's how it is I am here. I am my own master from to-day." "And the first thing you do with your liberty is to come and see your sister," said Colonel Colquhoun. "You're made of the right stuff, my boy," and he shook hands with him heartily.
The yearly birthdays of the vegetable world are observed with more than botanic enthusiasm. The regard in which they are held is truly emotional, and it not actually individual in its object, at least personal to the species. Each kind of tree as its season brings it into flower is made the occasion of a festival. For the beauty of the blossoming receives the tribute of a national admiration.
Filipinos, being devout Catholics, have a fashion of naming their children after the saints, and, instead of celebrating the children's birthdays, celebrate the saints' days.
"Always the ball!" cried I, slapping my boots in a temper. "Is it, then, such a matter of importance? I am sure you have danced before at my birthdays in Marlboro' Street and at your own, and Will Fotheringay's, and I know not how many others." "Of course," replies Dolly, sweetly; "but never with a real man. Boys like you and Will and the Lloyds do not count. Dr.
"Well, we do buy a good many books, first and last," said the Colonel, who probably had in mind the costly volumes which they presented to one another on birthdays and holidays. "But I get about all the reading I want in the newspapers. And when the girls want a novel, I tell 'em to get it out of the library. That's what the library's for.
"I'm ahead!" the Enemy had suddenly announced, waving her book-mark. She had got to the "h" in her Mother, and Margaret was only finishing her capital "M." They were both working "Honor thy Mother that thy days may be long," on strips of cardboard for their mothers' birthdays, which, oddly enough, came very close together.
It seemed as if he had made up his mind to live according to his birthdays that is, four times as slow as other people. The only things he did do well were eating and sleeping: he never appeared to be thoroughly awake, nor was his appetite ever entirely satisfied.
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