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What a pleasant Sunday that was when Frederick Chapman, the publisher, invited me and Forster, and Browning, with one or two more, whose names I have forgotten, down to Teddington. It was the close of a sultry summer's day, we had a cool and enjoyable repast, with many a joke and retailed story. Thus, "I was stopped to-day," said Browning, "by a strange, dilapidated being. Who do you think it was?
There was silence at first, then a murmur of, "No, no, no;" and, as it was getting too dark now to resume the search, we all trooped back to the schoolroom to sit and talk over the one event which had spoiled what would otherwise have been a most enjoyable day, for, as Tom Mercer said when we went up to bed, "It's nicer for those Hastings chaps to have won. They've gone back jollier.
At this Mere-Grand raised her eyes from the shirt she was mending, and remarked: "Oh! it's natural enough, my dear. It is your heart rising to your cheeks in order that we may see it." The dejeuner hour was now at hand; and they decided to lay the table in the work-shop, as was occasionally done when they had a guest. The simple, cordial meal proved very enjoyable in the bright sunlight.
When he went below to see Alfonso, his face was pale, and his voice trembled as he said, "Harris, before morning we shall all sink to the bottom of the Atlantic with the 'Majestic' for our tomb." Half undressed, Leo dropped again into his berth where he spent a miserable night. Few persons find life enjoyable in a great storm at sea, for the discomfitures of mind and body are many.
When the meal was ready, she bawled out in his ear: "Come, daddy, you must eat." He rose up, took his seat at the end of the table, emptied his pot, masticated his bread and butter, drank his two glasses of cider, and then took himself off. It was one of those warm days, one of those enjoyable days when life ferments, palpitates, blooms all over the surface of the soil.
"Will you do something for me?" "I should be more than delighted, miss." Billie whisked into view an envelope which had been concealed in the recesses of her dress. "Do you know the country about here, well, Webster?" "Within a certain radius, not unintimately, Miss. I have been for several enjoyable rambles since the fine weather set in."
They do not understand it, and Mr Pinsent understood nothing else. Could he have been told that for close upon twenty years he had been afflicting his neighbours with the pleasantries he found so enjoyable, his answer had undoubtedly been 'The bigger numskulls they! But now his doom was upon him. He ate his breakfast that morning in silence.
"After my life of the last few months, will it be very enjoyable to become a subordinate, to work for wages, to sink into obscurity? Does it seem to you natural? Do you think I shall be able to bear it?" He had begun to quiver with excitement. As Iris kept silence, he rose to a sitting position, and continued more vehemently. "Don't you understand that death would be preferable, a thousand times?
As I have said, American golf was only just budding when I made my tour through the country in 1900; but nevertheless I found that tour extremely interesting and enjoyable, and everywhere I was given the heartiest and most enthusiastic reception.
The roads are quite dry now and I think we will find it enjoyable." The cloud that had begun to gather on Lulu's brow at the refusal of her request, vanished with the words of invitation to walk with papa, for to do so, was one of her dear delights.
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