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"Because the play is too rough. Tom, Dick, and Harry, as you say in England, come out after dark, when the fair's lighted up and at its gayest, and it is no place for ladies to be hustled about in." "I've always found 'Tom, Dick, and Harry, very inoffensive fellows," Nell persisted. "You've never been to a Dutch Kermess." "That's why I want to go." "So you shall, before dark."
Betrothed to Prince Eusebio Albertinelli della Spina, she had come to Paris to order her trousseau. In the movement and the noise of the kermess she said: "Darling, you have left at Florence a friend who retains the charm of your memory. It is Professor Arrighi. He reserves for you the praise-which he says is the most beautiful. He says you are a musical creature.
This consisted in surprising and making happy many families of children on board the lighters we passed, by bestowing upon them toys and strange sugary cakes bought at Leeuwarden Kermess. Not all the lighters had children, but those that had, owned dozens, and all the ugly ones had whooping-cough.
"Make them pay well for their purchases, my dear." "I can't rob them, Diana," was the laughing rejoinder. "But it is your duty to rob, at a Kermess, and in the interests of charity," persisted Diana, maintaining her voice at a whisper. Louise was annoyed. "Thank you," she said, and went back to the group awaiting her.
Everything that is necessary to accomplish my purpose." "Be careful," said she warningly. "Keep a cool head, Charlie, and don't do anything foolish. Still " "Well?" "If it is necessary to take a few chances, do it. Arthur Weldon must not marry Louise Merrick!" Uncle John really had more fun out of the famous Kermess than anyone else.
Nell gave a shudder, but she didn't say that we never would go home and to work again, as she used to say if I spoke of it when we were beginning our trip. Instead she said "I don't know about the future; but I'm going to wear mine to-night." "What, sleep in that helmet?" I asked. She laughed. "I'm not thinking about sleep yet. It's just the edge of the evening in Kermess week. Watch me."
It was the last day before kermess away at Louvain, and the Brabantois was in haste to reach the fair and get a good place for his truck of brass wares. He was in fierce wrath, because Patrasche had been a strong and much-enduring animal, and because he himself had now the hard task of pushing his charette all the way to Louvain.
"And after dark, too," she added, as obstinately as if she had been a Frisian. "That is impossible," said Jonkheer Brederode, his mouth and chin looking hard and firm. Nell didn't say any more, though she shrugged her shoulders; but the expression of her eyes was ominous, and I felt that she was planning mischief. We walked out to the Kermess, which Lady MacNairne and Mr.
"But," Lenaieff exclaimed, "you told me that you did not know her!" "I have made her acquaintance since then." "Ah! Where?" Eugenie inquired, with interest. "At my sister's house, during the meeting of a charitable society." "Had it anything to do with the society for which Monsieur Desvanneaux asked me to appear in a kermess?" "Well, yes.
And now Charlie Mershone stepped from his hiding place and with a satirical smile entered the vestibule and looked at his watch. He found he had time to show himself again at the Kermess, for a few moments, before driving to the ferry to catch the train for East Orange. Some one touched him on the arm. "Very pretty, sir, and quite cleverly done," remarked a quiet voice.
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