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For my part I felt a pleasing, squirmy excitement to think that we were to walk on to the Nursery field in the company of the great Middlesex amateur; and, incidentally, I took the opportunity of measuring myself against him. We arrived on the ground, creating less sensation than I would have liked. Radley took a deck-chair in front of the pavilion next to Dr.
Yet she was his wife, and not six weeks back he had experienced a cold sort of satisfaction in the possession of so much beauty. He remembered that day now. Enderby, the passenger from Sydney, and he were walking the poop; his wife was asleep in a deck-chair on the other side. An open book lay in her lap.
We know from Powell how he used to sit on the skylight near the long deck-chair on which Flora was reclining, gazing into her face from above with an air of guardianship and investigation at the same time. It is almost impossible to say if he ever had considered the event rationally. The avatar of de Barral into Mr Smith had not been effected without a shock that much one must recognise.
But you won't see it; and the people who do see it are just the sort who don't pay us when they come, and damage us when they go back, hard cases, sent out to pick up a living as well as their health, who get stranded and hurry home half-cured." A young Briton in the deck-chair next to mine rose and walked off abruptly, while I fumbled for a coin, ashamed to meet the collector's eye. "Hullo!" Mr.
In the drawing-room. He says you are expecting him." "Of course, yes. To be sure." Mr. Bennett heaved himself out of the deck-chair. Beyond the French windows he could see an indistinct form in a gray suit, and remembered that this was the morning on which Sir Mallaby Marlowe's clerk who was taking those Schultz and Bowen papers for him to America had written that he would call.
And he had got to do it again. There was the crux. He had got to do it again. He leaned back faint and shuddering in the deck-chair in the rose-garden where he was lying. Presently Rachel appeared, coming towards him down the narrow grass walk between two high walls of hollyhocks. She had a cup of tea in her hand.
The other, who had come up behind, laughed, and dropped into the empty deck-chair beside Laurence. He was the latter's cabin chum, and the two had become rather friendly. "Nothing to do and plenty of time to do it in," he went on, stretching himself and yawning. "I'm jolly sick of this voyage already." "And we're scarcely half through with it? It's a fact, Holmes, but I'm not sick of it a bit."
"We can't see the Ushant light," Hilda remarked, looking ahead. "No; there's a little haze about on the horizon, I fancy. See, the stars are fading away. It begins to feel damp. Sea mist in the Channel." Hilda sat uneasily in her deck-chair. "That's bad," she answered; "for the first officer is taking no more heed of Ushant than of his latter end.
Winged insects danced sarabands in the sunshine. In a deck-chair under the cedar-tree Billie Bennett, with a sketching-block on her knee, was engaged in drawing a picture of the ruined castle. Beside her, curled up in a ball, lay her Pekinese dog, Pinky-Boodles. Beside Pinky-Boodles slept Smith, the bulldog.
He took up a paper from the table and resumed his seat, not without a grim smile at the promptitude with which the other obeyed his instructions. Miss Nugent, reclining in a deck-chair at the bottom of the garden, looked up as she heard Hardy's footstep on the gravel.
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