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The Colonel saw, as he entered the marquee, that his forced calmness of demeanor portended a storm. Whether the Colonel thought that a half-emptied good-sized tumbler of what looked like clear brandy which stood on the table before him, had anything to do with it, the reader must judge for himself.
Come, friends, let us move our station, and in such fashion, too, as will throw the cunning of a Mingo on a wrong scent, or our scalps will be drying in the wind in front of Montcalm's marquee, ag'in this hour to-morrow."
Madam Johnsen met an acquaintance who was selling "dying pigs." She sat down beside her. "You go over there now and have a bit of a dance while I rest my tired legs," she said. The young people went across to the dancing marquee and stood among the onlookers. From time to time they had five ore worth of dancing.
The stables of Versailles, to the right, and left, are from the designs of Mansart, in the form of a crescent, and have the appearance of princely residences. Here the late King kept in the greatest style six hundred of the finest horses. On the left of the grand gateway, is a military lodge for the accommodation of cavalry. It represents in shape, an immense turkish marquee.
To the left, full upon the sward, which it almost entirely covered, stretched the great Gothic marquee, divided into two grand sections, one for the dancing, one for the dejeune. The day was propitious, not a cloud in the sky.
They were, many of them together, near the marquee that had been erected on a stretch of sward as a temple of refreshment and that happened to have the property which was all to the good of making Milly think of a "durbar"; her iced coffee had been a consequence of this connection, in which, further, the bright company scattered about fell thoroughly into place.
She holds a Scottish widows' insurance policy and a large marquee umbrella under which her brood run with her, Patsy hopping on one shod foot, his collar loose, a hank of porksteaks dangling, freddy whimpering, Susy with a crying cod's mouth, Alice struggling with the baby. FREDDY: Ah, ma, you're dragging me along! SUSY: Mamma, the beeftea is fizzing over!
As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor. "Man the capstan! Blood and thunder! jump!" was the next command, and the crew sprang for the handspikes.
"And an earwig!" exclaimed Dick, picking one up from the cloth. "Oh! and spiders!" screamed Lady Betty, jumping up and shaking her frock. "Dear! dear! this will never do!" I said, for the place was swarming with insects, owing to the very dry summer which we had had. "There ought to be a marquee like we had at the choir treat," said Fidge. "Oh, I vote we get on with the grub," said Dick greedily.
Filled with the triumphant delight of gratified malice, Lydia Graham went back to the broad greensward by the Wizard's Cave. The gentlemen had now left the marquee; the full moon was rising, round and yellow, on the horizon, like a great globe of molten gold.
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