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"Unless you go first, and we run after you," suggested the general. "All the same. You talked Dixville to her the very first evening, you know. No, nobody can have an original Dixville idea any more. And I've been asking them, the Josselyns, and Mr. Wharne and all, and was just coming to the Goldthwaites; and now I've got them on my hands, and I don't know where in the world to take them.
Linceford had letters from her husband, proposing to meet her by the first, in N , and so the Haddens would be off; the Thoresbys had stayed as long as they cared to in any one place where there seemed no special inducement; General Ingleside was going through the mountains to Dixville Notch.
But there are insurmountable obstacles on that Dixville road to us. There's a lion in the way. Don't you see we should be like the little ragged boys running after the soldier-company? We couldn't think of putting ourselves in that 'bony light, especially before the eyes of Mrs. Grundy." This last, as Mrs. Thoresby swept impressively along the piazza in full dinner costume.
The Dixville Notch is, briefly, picturesque, a fine gorge between a crumbling conical crag and a scarped precipice, a pass easily defensible, except at the season when raspberries would distract sentinels. Now we came upon our proper field of action.
To tell of all that week's journeying, and of Dixville Notch; the adventure, the brightness, the beauty, and the glory; the sympathy of abounding enjoyment, the waking of new life that it was to some of them; the interchange of thought, the cementing of friendships, would be to begin another story, possibly a yet longer one. Leslie's summer, according to the calendar, is already ended.
We ran before our gormers, they gormed by us while we plucked, we ran by, plucked again, and again were gormingly overtaken and overtook. Thus we ate our way luxuriously through the Dixville Notch, a capital cleft in a northern spur of the White Mountains. Picturesque is a curiously convenient, undiscriminating epithet. I use it here.
Linceford had letters from her husband, proposing to meet her by the first, in N , and so the Haddens would be off; the Thoresbys had stayed as long as they cared to in any one place where there seemed no special inducement; General Ingleside was going through the mountains to Dixville Notch.
They have not done it since they and I and P. came down through the Dixville Notch all four on a hand gallop, with the rain running in sheets off our waterproofs. Get them to say they will go, and then hold them up to it. For dress, you, Phillis, will want a regular bloomer to use when you are scrambling over the mountains on foot.
Early September was so lovely among the hills; opportunities for a party to Dixville Notch would not come every day; in short, Dakie had set his heart upon it, Rose begged, the general was as pressing as true politeness would allow, and it was settled.
But there are insurmountable obstacles on that Dixville road to us. There's a lion in the way. Don't you see we should be like the little ragged boys running after the soldier-company? We couldn't think of putting ourselves in that 'bony light, especially before the eyes of Mrs. Grundy." This last, as Mrs. Thoresby swept impressively along the piazza in full dinner costume.
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