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You will dine with me soon? Au revoir!" and she gave me her hand graciously, while Delphine bowed as if I were already gone, threw herself into a garden-chair, and commenced pouring the wine on a stone for a little tame snake which came out and lapped it. Such women as Mme. de St. Cyr have a species of magnetism about them.
"And I wish I was a great man, with lots of gardeners to take them up, instead of me," maintained No. 5, who was in a mood of lazy tiresomeness, and kept rocking to and fro on the garden-chair, with his hands tucked under his thighs. "A weed a weed," continued he; "what is a weed, I wonder? Aunt Judy, what is a weed?"
They disembarked, and strolled across the gay flower-decked lawns in search of Toad, whom they presently happened upon resting in a wicker garden-chair, with a pre-occupied expression of face, and a large map spread out on his knees. 'Hooray! he cried, jumping up on seeing them, 'this is splendid! He shook the paws of both of them warmly, never waiting for an introduction to the Mole.
He went to the cottage next day, between three and four upon a drowsy summer afternoon, and was so fortunate as to find Marian sitting under one of the walnut-trees at the end of the garden reading a novel, with her faithful Skye terrier in attendance. He seated himself on a low garden-chair by her side, and took the book gently from her hand.
What is it that you wish to say?" Mrs. Linton, with a smile, drew up a garden-chair and crossed one open- work ankle above the other. "I want you to tell me what my husband said to your husband last night." Lydia turned pale. "My husband to yours?" she faltered, staring at the other. "Didn't you know they were closeted together for hours in the smoking-room after you went upstairs?
Gresley, stiffly, who had not forgotten or forgiven the enormity of Dick's behavior at the temperance meeting. "So I should have thought," said Dick, warming to the subject, and mounting on a small garden-chair. "And some escaped lunatic has put a clamp on the stucco." "I placed the clamp myself," replied Mr. Gresley. "There really is no necessity for you to waste your time and mine here.
I speak now, because I ought not to remain here with such feelings unknown to your father and mother. At that moment, close on the other side of the box-tree clump, were heard the wheels of Charles's garden-chair, and Charlotte's voice talking to him, as he made his morning tour round the garden.
On the broad landing between Miss Havisham's own room and that other room in which the long table was laid out, I saw a garden-chair, a light chair on wheels, that you pushed from behind. Over and over and over again, we would make these journeys, and sometimes they would last as long as three hours at a stretch.
"It would have meant murder, sir!" rejoins the surgeon shortly. "Dear Sir Adrian," says Dora Talbot, laying down her bat upon a garden-chair, and forsaking the game of tennis then proceeding to go forward and greet her host, "where have you been? We have missed you so much. Florence" turning to her cousin "will you take my bat, dearest? I am quite tired of trying to defeat Lord Lisle."
It was here that the lilacs and laburnums grew especially thick; this was the most sheltered nook in the enclosure, its shrubs screened the garden-chair where that afternoon I had sat with the young directress.
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