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The house was a great square of brick, with a wide cornice, surrounded by a shaded lawn; solidly built, in the fashion of the days when rich people stayed at home, with a conservatory and a library that had once been Mr. Duncan's pride.
"I must go now, father; good-bye, darling. I shan't be away more than seven or eight days." A moment after her dear father was behind her, and she was alone in the hansom, driving towards the convent. About her were villas engarlanded with reddening creeper. On one lawn a family had assembled under the shade of a dwarf cedar, and miles of this kind of landscape lay before her.
Then you didn't play cricket?" "No." "Tennis?" "No. But," added Margaret rather timidly, for it distressed her to see to what depths she was sinking in Maud's estimation, "I have always thought I should like to learn lawn tennis very much. Perhaps you could teach me."
He crossed the dining-room, and in the pantry cautiously raised the window, and on the floor below placed a chair. If while at work upon the safe he were interrupted, to reach the lawn he had but to thrust back the door to the pantry, leap to the chair, and through the open window fall upon the grass.
I met her on the lawn " "Yes where is she? And you ?" He caught the note of apprehension. Next moment he was kneeling by her chair, confessing all. "Mummy, I've just asked her to marry me. And she simply ... won't hear of it. I thought it would be so lovely, going out together that it would please you so " The smile in her eyes recalled Tara's own. "Did you say it that way to her, my darling?"
What with dragging bashful young chaps out to call and then seeing that they didn't freeze up below the ankles and get sick on the night of the party; and what with teaching them the rudiments of waltzing and giving them pointers on lawn ties; or how to charter a good seaworthy hack in case the girl lived on an unpaved street; and bracing up the fellows who had drawn blanks, and going to call on the blanks we had drawn and getting gloriously snubbed give me a wall-flower for thorns! well, it was no cinch to run a class party.
"Talkin' about cuffs, now " Captain Cai dived a hand into a hip-pocket and drew forth a circlet of white lawn, much flattened. "I found this in the garden last night by the rose-bushes." "Thank you yes, it is mine, of course. I missed it on the way home." Mrs Bosenna reached out her hand for it. "You must have set me down for a very careless person?
Indeed, they had often asked her to tell it, and each time they had found it as interesting as when they first had listened to it. "Now tell us about the first moment that you saw the Dolphin," said Rob. Gwen Harcourt, seeing the group on the lawn, wondered what they were talking about. There was but one way to find out, and she chose to take it.
When that was over, and Louis had gone back to his book, Marie Antoinette hastened to her cows to see them milked, or she went into the rocking-boat to fish, or else reposed on the lawn, busy as a peasant, with her spindle.
The trouble had been passing off, and Dexter leaped up with alacrity; but as he reached the window he saw Dan'l crossing the lawn, and he stopped short, turned, and came back to sit down with a sigh. "Well, Dexter," said Helen, "why don't you go?" He gave her a pitiful look which went right to her heart, as he said slowly "No. I shan't go. I should only get into trouble again."
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