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It was exciting to go to London with him, to bid him good-bye at Victoria she to her lessons, he to his to meet him in the evenings, and in conjunction to arrange the programme of their next concert.
Peter gave her a quick glance, turning his eyes full upon her for a moment as though to read something in the face beside him; then he began with absorbed attention to twist the silk string of his ball programme round and round his finger. The room where they sat was singularly unlike those rose-shaded bowers which are considered suitable to the needs of dancers who pause and rest in them.
These differed in severity in different States, but in the main their outlines were the same. Practically all the Granger legislatures prohibited free passes to members of the legislatures and to public officials. A law fixing the rate of passenger fares the maximum ranging all the way from two and one-half to five cents a mile was a regular feature of the Granger programme.
It was the old quarrel between Ministers and the Opposition as to the adequacy or the reverse of the Government's naval programme.
We reached the station at five minutes to six, i.e., five minutes before the starting of our train, and at once realised the neatness with which the day's programme had been arranged, both by the railway companies and the Government.
Close at hand is an extensive factory for the production of hydrogen gas. At each end of the roof are towers from which the difficult task of safely removing an air-ship from the shed can be directed. But it may be stated that air-ships are included in the great constructive programme now being carried out.
He had been set down to win to take Richmond: that had formed the great culmination of the programme the red fire and flourish of trumpets on which the curtain of the rebellion was to go down. If any one had spoken disapprovingly or doubtfully of his long delay in the swamps of the Chickahominy, the reply had been: "Wait patiently! McClellan is slow, but sure.
And, as he turned to Raffles with his puffy smile, I knew that we had reached that part of the programme which had undergone rehearsal: it had been perfectly timed to arrive with the champagne, and I was not afraid to signify my appreciation of that small mercy.
In the course of each evening, large displays of fireworks take place, all arranged according to a published programme of the festival. The various ceremonies which take place during Lent seemed to me the most impressive, and some of them were exceedingly well- arranged.
McNabbs voted therefore for the continuation of the voyage, without making the least change in their programme. John Mangles was of the same opinion. The young captain said even that orders would reach the DUNCAN more easily from Twofold Bay, than if a message was sent two hundred miles over a wild country. His counsel prevailed. It was decided that they should wait till they came to Twofold Bay.
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