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Cold as he was to English scenes and sentiments, his alien ideas were not unimpressed by the picture of those daintily-clad young women demurely stepping homeward, while the air held a revel of skylarks, and the scented hedgeways quickened with sunshine. "You have missed a treat!" Arabella greeted him. "A sermon?" said he.
I wish I'd gone there! Where's Graham?" Isobel stretched her daintily-clad self in the chintz-cushioned chair that Gyp had vacated. "He went out to Highacres to see the changes. Won't it seem funny to go to school in old Uncle Peter's house?" For the moment Gyp and Tibby forgot to feel bored. "It'll be like going to a new school. I know I shall be possessed to slide down the banisters.
Cold as he was to English scenes and sentiments, his alien ideas were not unimpressed by the picture of those daintily-clad young women demurely stepping homeward, while the air held a revel of skylarks, and the scented hedgeways quickened with sunshine. "You have missed a treat!" Arabella greeted him. "A sermon?" said he.
Khaki-clad figures were everywhere; some were accompanied by daintily-clad girls, proud of their soldier lovers; others were walking with portly old gentlemen, their generous grandfathers or godfathers, most probably; while many of them had given themselves over to their mothers for the morning.
Large-turbaned Indian police keep order in the streets, where office "chuprassies," or messengers, wearing their broad, coloured sash of office across their shoulders, come and go upon their errands, and, with the white-clad butler of a "Sahib" intent upon his marketing, mingle with a crowd which is composed of all races and all stations of life, from the wizened labourer in his loin-cloth to the wealthy baboo or daintily-clad Burmese lady.
A slight, daintily-clad figure had detached itself from a group of guests and came running toward them. Mrs. Carmichael's deeply lined, somewhat severe face lighted up. "That is my husband's ward, Lois Caruthers," she said. "She has been with me all her life, practically. As you are so fond of genuine India, you must let her show you over the place.
A very light hand on his arm brought him out of his thoughts with a start, and he turned to find a small, daintily-clad lady standing beside him. "How much longer shall we be?" she asked; "and when am I going to see you again, Dicky, once we land?" She had called him Dicky from the second day of their acquaintance. Mrs.
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