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"Why didn't you hit into the main road and go down through Catskill? You're likely to miss the train this way." "I'm going to hike home," Tom said. "Far?" "In Jersey, about twenty miles from the city." "Some jaunt, eh?" Archer inquired pleasantly. "I don't mind it," Tom said. "What are you goin' home for?" "Because I want to; because I'm finished," Tom said.
We resolved to see Europe before returning to America, so the next few weeks were spent in a pleasure jaunt. In the course of it we visited Vienna, remaining there some time and bringing away many and pleasant memories of that music-loving old city on the Danube. We finally all returned to Wiesbaden together and visited the Casino, watching the play and players with an interest that never flagged.
Arrived in Durban once more, after a most delightful jaunt, they at once set about making their preparations in earnest, one of the first things which Grosvenor insisted upon doing being the payment to Dick of six months' salary in advance, from the date of their landing upon South African soil.
His boyishness, however, could hardly be repressed this morning; and, speaking to his fourteen-year-old son as though his age might be five or six summers, he clapped him on the back and bade him 'Never mind; we will go for a merry jaunt to the ruins instead, and have a regular big affair, and you shall boil a kettle, and we 'll have tea. What do you say, mamma? Mrs.
Would she see him the day after to-morrow, Sunday, if he strolled along Shaftesbury Avenue at ten a.m.? It would greatly delight him, and perhaps she might be persuaded to take a little jaunt to Dulwich and look at his bow-wows. There was time enough for Polly to reply to this invitation, but reply she did not.
"When my precious baby is strong enough ," he began. "I'm strong now." She gripped his fingers. "We'll take a little jaunt together." "We must have moth-er with us, daddy. Oh, dear daddy!" "We'll see mother soon," he said; " very soon." She brushed his cheek with searching fingers. "I think we'd better start right away," she declared. "'Cause isn't this a rain-drop on your face?"
He lives out in the country, and he takes a little jaunt down to the shore now and then. He's sort of eccentric, thinks he can sell his farm stuff to the hotel men, better'n any other market." "How can I get to his house?" "Wanter see Zeb, do you? Well, he has his own rig, not very nobby, but safe. I guess you could get a rig at that stable 'cross the way. An' they can tell you how to go."
He could not understand my sudden punctiliousness as to times and seasons, and I was afraid I should have to tell him plainly that only over my lifeless body should he succeed in investing the contents of the safe. At last I effected a diversion by persuading him to give Mrs. Jones a jaunt into the country, and, thus left in peace, I spent my afternoon in making final preparations.
The boys, their kind offer refused, had gone off on a fishing jaunt that is, all but Will, and he had not returned from Boston. Grace had a hasty note from him in which he stated that work connected with his new duties would keep him busy for a week or so, after which he hoped to join his friends at Edgemere. "No news of a diamond robbery around Boston," he wrote, in a letter.
She gave me the letter, which was just what I wanted, for I felt I had gained little beyond a pleasant experience of old-world life from my morning's jaunt.