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It was difficult to see how greater honors could have been paid to any man than were given to the President when he embarked at Elizabethport and advanced, through a harbor crowded with decorated vessels, to the great city, the wharves and roofs of which were black with human beings a holiday city which shook with the tumult of the popular welcome.
But Tom was very considerate, and though he called it "silly," and took a little fit of crossness on the occasion, he allowed Elizabeth to write to mother about him, and consented that on her next holiday she should go to Richmond, in order to speak to Miss Hilary on the same subject, and ask her also to write to Mrs.
To-night would be Christmas Eve; and there were thousands of little stockings waiting to be hung by happy firesides, and they must all be filled for the morrow. So the shops and streets were crowded, and people with arms full of holiday parcels jostled each other at every corner. There are odd encounters in this world tumble that we live in.
I said 'No! He doesn't want more books to read, but to read books rightly. My suggestion was he should be given something every year towards a summer holiday, but then there is his wife, and they said she would have to go too. Nothing seemed quite right! Now what do you think? Imagine that you were a millionaire, and wanted to help the poor. What would you do?" Mr.
It was Saturday afternoon: the day was fine, and mamma told them they could go for a holiday frolic in the woods. "Don't go to the pond, and be home early," she said. "Yes, mamma; we'll remember," they answered, as they scampered away to get ready. "We shall go through the village, and Mary King will be looking out; so I shall wear my best hat.
You may gain some idea of the difficulties Charles had to overcome, and will begin to realize what he, the great founder, did for his country and its capital. Prague was in holiday vein, happy and optimistic, its prevailing mood, on that day in 1311 when John, Count of Luxemburg, and Elizabeth, daughter of Wenceslaus II, were crowned.
"It's all the more surprising," remarked the housekeeper, "because of his going off for his holiday tomorrow. And Miss Fosdyke's coming down from London today to go with him." Neale pricked his ears. Miss Fosdyke was the manager's niece a young lady whom Neale remembered as a mere slip of a girl that he had met years before and never seen since. "I didn't know that," he remarked. "Neither did Mr.
Only twice in the year, and that in the month of May, when the woods were arrayed in their earliest green, did my mother go with us, and then she wore a cotton gown, which she put on only on these occasions, and when she partook of the Lord's Supper, and which, as long as I can remember, was her holiday gown.
I shall take Louisa Wright's passport and go for a holiday. No one knows me in the Romagna, but every spy knows you." "F-fortunately, so does every smuggler." She took out her watch. "Half-past two. We have the afternoon and evening, then, if you are to start to-night." "Then the best thing will be for me to go home and settle everything now, and arrange about a good horse.
Holiday amusement consisted largely of the dances that the Negroes had brought with them, these being accompanied by the beating of drums and the blowing of horns; and funeral ceremonies featured African mummeries.
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