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The "Maroon" stands rose en masse and a torrent of cheers swept over the field as they gave the team a greeting that must have "warmed the cockles of their heart." The boys peeled off their jerseys and commenced punting and falling on the ball. They kept this up for ten minutes and then gave way to their rivals. Out from the other side of the field scampered the Blues.
"Hanged if I know!" "Are you going to maroon us there?" "No. At that point the yacht will be turned back to your father, and he can cruise until the crack o' doom without further interference from yours truly." "That's your word?" "It is and I will keep it. Anything else?" "Yes. I will play the game as it lies, provided that Miss Norman is in nowise interfered with or annoyed."
Her hat was trimmed with a narrow-striped silk of the same colors maroon and white and in her hand she held a parasol that matched her dress. "She's had a new dress on twice a day," said my wife, "but that's the prettiest yet. Oh, somehow I'm awfully sorry they're going!" But going they were. They moved toward the steps. Mrs. Brede looked toward my wife, and my wife moved toward Mrs. Brede.
Arriving in Africa, they found the chief white man in control there so drunk that he soon died of delirium tremens. John Clarkson, however, brother of Thomas Clarkson, the abolitionist, eventually took the lead, founded Freetown, and the colony began its checkered career. In 1896 the colony was saved from insurrection by the exiled Maroon Negroes from Jamaica.
It was as though he could see, for she was wearing a dark-red dress "wine-coloured," her father called it, "maroon," Madame Bulteel called it. Could he then see, after all? "How did you know it was dark-red?" she asked, her voice shaking. "Guessed it! Guessed it!" he answered almost gleefully. "Was I right? Is it dark-red?" "Yes, dark-red," she answered. "Was it really a guess?"
He pictured the strange colors and lights of the place; ledges of rock, yellow, white and green, drab and maroon, and tumbled piles of red boulders, shadowy buttes in the distance, serrated cliffs against the horizon, not blue, but rosy pink in the heated haze of the air, and perhaps a great, lonely eagle poised above the silent, brilliant waste.
He turned on the high spring-seat, and, dangling his long legs over the wagon-box, sent a far-reaching, indefinite gaze across the valley. There were broad acres of yellowing vineyard, fields of velvety young barley, orange-trees in dark orderly ranks, and here and there a peach orchard robbed of its leaves, a cloud of tender maroon upon the landscape.
San Pasqual is such a weather-beaten, sad, abject little town that one might readily experience surprise that the trains even condescend to stop there. It squats in the sand a few miles south of Tehachapi pass, hemmed in by mountain ranges ocher-tinted where near by, mellowed by distance into gorgeous shades of turquoise and deep maroon.
She is just the girl to fall in love with her teacher, at least in Europe, where they are the only men one sees." "There were some very superior men among them," said Philip. "Professor Schirmer has a European reputation; he wears blue spectacles and a maroon wig." "Do not talk so," said Kate. "I tell you, Emilia is not changeable, like you, sir. She is passionate and constant.
Do you know, he went up to see her with his red hair plastered down with lard until it was a dull maroon colour; his square cotton handkercher was perfumed with kerosene, and I tell you he was a sight and a smell to remember; but Drew's sister stood it without a word. She told me afterward that it was a proof conclusive them's her words of Billy's redemption.
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