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One day I took her out buggy-riding, in style, too, and out on the road I offered to do the square thing, just as if she'd been a lady, offered to marry her then and there. And what did she do?" said Jack with a hysterical laugh. "Why, blank it all!
Was it not perfectly plain to them that her present sickening politeness was solely with a view to extract from them caramels, rock-candy, and gum drops, which she would meanly keep herself, and perhaps some "buggy-riding" later? Alas, John Milton, it was not!
Mrs. Norris showed equal, though not similar, signs of mental disturbance; for, womanlike, she clothed her worry in placidity and silence. Her kindly face became drawn and lined; she laughed less frequently. She never went "neighboring" or "buggy-riding" with old Bill now.
Think of your having known that, all this " "Her mother's sick, you know," Madeleine Hollister explained. "She hasn't been so sick but what Lydia could get out to go buggy-riding with your brother Paul ever since he got back this last time."
"You wouldn't put it round a town girl if you were riding with her." "I shouldn't be riding with her: Girls don't go buggy-riding in town any more," said Jeff, brutally. "Then I shall know what to do the next time you ask me." "Oh, they'd go quick enough if I asked them up here in the country. Etiquette don't count with them when they're on a vacation."
"Oh, Flora! don't, don't!" said she. But she looked at the cold kitchen stove in dismay. I suggested boiling the kettle on Mrs. Bemis' stove; but that could not be done, for the hired girl had gone away buggy-riding with her beau after she had brought in the biscuits, and Mrs. Bemis was not at the sewing circle: her mother, in the next town, was ill, and she had gone to see her.
Give me her money and her looks, and you wouldn't catch me hanging round these diggings goin' to choir meetings Saturdays, church Sundays, and buggy-riding once a month for society! No Mamie's head was level you bet!" Don Caesar rose hurriedly. They would present his compliments to their father, and he would endeavor to find their brother at Red Dog.
"Well, suppose you an' me go buggy-riding all day out in the hills?" She did not answer immediately, and for the moment she was seeing the nightmare vision of her last buggy-ride; of her fear and her leap from the buggy; and of the long miles and the stumbling through the darkness in thin-soled shoes that bruised her feet on every rock.
He observed the warning flash of her eyes, and hurried on to escape refusal. "I'll tell you what we'll do. Suppose I buy the mare and own her myself, and lend her to you when you want to ride. There's nothing wrong in that. Anybody borrows a horse from anybody, you know." Agin he saw refusal, and headed her off. "Lots of men take women buggy-riding. There's nothing wrong in that.
And these same whispers found audible expression the summer she was twenty-two, when attractive Lee Burnham, the judge's son, spent his summer vacation at home, and "took her buggy-riding every Sunday evening for over two months." Lee was only twenty-one, but his was a very romantic twenty-one, and he filled Stella's ears with so many sweet nothings that she no longer heeded the call of duty.
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