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Now, with my quickened ears, I often heard John talking quietly to his wife on this wise. He remained by her side the whole forenoon wheeling her about in her garden-chair; taking her to see her school-children in their glory on our lawn to hear the shouts rising up from the people at the mill-yard below.
He seems to double up like a garden-chair to receive one; then his knees unfold and the rider shoots up; then the camel rises to his full height, and one ducks instinctively for fear of striking the stars. "Salaam Aleikhoom," I cried to the drivers, airing my Arabic, which I make by mispronouncing Hebrew; and they answered effusively, "Yankee Doodle! Chicago!" Alas for the glamour of the Orient!
Aware of this, Dalibard prayed the baronet to rest quiet till his company arrived, and then he said carelessly, "It will be a healthful diversion to your spirits to accompany them a little in the park; you can go in your garden-chair; you will have new companions to talk with by the way; and it is always warm and sunny at the slope of the hill, towards the bottom of the park."
Travellers, American and others, must remember having found the garden-gate locked at Rydal Mount, and perceiving the reason why, in seeing a little garden-chair, with an emaciated old lady in it, drawn by a nurse round and round the gravelled space before the house. That was Miss Wordsworth, taking her daily exercise.
Beaumont's garden-chair he got; and when she had him fairly prisoner, she carried him far away from all danger of intruding visitors. It may readily be supposed that our heroine made good use of the five or six hours' leisure for manoeuvring which she thus secured. So frank and cordial was this simple-hearted old man, any one but Mrs.
'I have not the least doubt of that, said the Dictator politely. The white gentleman seemed much pleased. At a sign from Miss Ericson he sat down upon a garden-chair, still slowly and contentedly rubbing his white hands together. Miss Ericson and her nephew resumed their seats. 'Captain Sarrasin is a great traveller, Miss Ericson said explanatorily to the Dictator. The Dictator bowed his head.
The crowd on the grass was rapidly diminishing; the tennis-players had relinquished sport; many people had gone in to dinner or supper; and many others, attracted by the cheerful radiance of the candles, were gathering in the large tent that had been lighted up for dancing. Dare went to the garden-chair on which Havill had been seated, and found the article left behind to be a pocket-book.
"Oh, you did." The count sat down on a garden-chair facing his daughter and looked attentively at her. "I wanted to ask you," began Billy, looking up into the pear-tree, "I wanted to ask you if you have forgiven me." "Yes, certainly," the count slowly replied, as if he had been given a problem to solve.
"Very well," I replied; "you had better tell me at once." We walked on to the old garden-chair, and sat down as we had done that memorable night. We were both silent, I from disappointment and apprehension. He, I suppose, was collecting himself for what he had to say. "Juanita," he spoke at last, taking my hand in his, "I do not know how you will receive what I am about to tell you.
She sat in an armchair, and watched Olivier as he placed an iron garden-chair in the right light. He opened his bookcase to get a book, then asked, hesitating: "What does your daughter read?" "Dear me! anything you like! Give her a volume of Victor Hugo." "'La Legende des Siecles?" "That will do." "Little one, sit down here," he continued, "and take this volume of verse.
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