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"I meant," repeated Kennedy, "what about Lang and Mademoiselle Violette. Were they ah friendly?" "Oh," replied Herndon, seeming to catch the idea. "I see. Of course Pierre abroad and Lang here. I see what you mean. Why, the girl told my man that Mademoiselle Violette used to go motor- boating with Lang, but only when her fiance, Pierre, was along.
"Whose is it, Max?" asked the latter. "Mine I suppose, though papa doesn't say; but we'll find out when he comes." "Oh, I'm so glad, so glad he's coming soon! Aren't you, Maxie?" "I never was gladder in my life!" cried Max. "And just think how nice to go and live by the sea all summer! There'll be lots of fun boating and bathing and fishing!"
One of the boating men made a martyr of himself and took the mother. "Let us go to the little wood on the Ile aux Anglais!" he called out as he rowed off.
I caught, too, the muscles of his chest rounding out his boating shirt, and particularly the muscles of the neck supporting the round head crowned with closely cropped hair evidently a young Englishman of that great middle class which the nation depends upon in an emergency. My inspection also settled any question I might have had as to why he was "William," and never "Bill," to those about him.
Next day, the wind still continuing, I proposed a boating excursion and decoyed A-, L-, and S- into accompanying me. We took the little gig, and sailed away merrily enough round a point to a beautiful white bay, flanked with two glistening little churches, fronted by beautiful distant islands; when suddenly, to my horror, I discovered the ELBA steaming full speed out from the island.
The next morning there were confused goodbyes, multiplied promises to write, or to call, vows never to forget, and protestations of eternal friendship. There were arrangements made for camping, boating, tramping and other forms of vacation fun. There were dates made for assembling next year.
The Starlight was now aground in the bright green river grass and the flats were bare for a long distance beyond, so that there was no more boating for the present. There were plenty of comfortable hollows to rest in farther back on the soft carpet under the pines, and so the dining-room nearer the shore was abandoned and the provisions cachéd, as Mr. Leicester called it, under an oak-tree.
Radipole is spoilt by an ugly railway bridge and some sidings belonging to the joint railways that lie along the eastern bank for some distance. The water is enlivened by a large colony of swans and also in the summer by boating parties, who prefer the quietude of the pool to the possible discomforts of the bay.
The captain got down from his buggy, hitched his mare to a post, and then shook hands with Miss Port. "Dick Lancaster has gone boating to-day with the Broadstone people," he said. "What!" exclaimed Miss Port. "Gone there again already? Why it was only yesterday you took dinner with them." "Lunch," corrected the captain. "Well, you may call it what you please," said Maria, "but I call it dinner.
She blushed, but did not seem displeased. "And as we boys are going anyhow," went on Will, "you girls can come in the ice boat, or not, just as you choose. I only thought I'd offer it." "It's kind of you," declared Mollie. "I think ice boating would be lovely," vouchsafed Betty. Seeing her chums thus in favor Grace capitulated. "All right," she said. "We'll go, with you boys."
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