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They walked together down the white, dusty street, crossed the outskirts of the old Mexican adobe town, and came to a suburb of bungalows. In front of one of these Farrar stopped. He unlatched the gate. "Here we are." There was an old-fashioned garden of roses and mignonettes and hollyhocks, with crimson ramblers rioting over the wire trellis in front of the broad porch.
There was no electricity in this kiosk, and we aided the moonlight only with red-shaded candles, and ruby domed "fairy lamps," the exact shade of the crimson ramblers which decorated the table. For the corners by the open doors, I had ordered pots of Madonna lilies, which gave up their perfume to the moon, and looked, in the mingling radiance of rose and silver, like hovering doves.
At that moment the garden gate swung to; the ramblers were returning. 'They are afraid of nothing, I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions.
Thought is better than no thought. MISS ADAMS. 'Do you think, Sir, you could make your Ramblers better? JOHNSON. 'Certainly I could. BOSWELL. 'I'll lay a bet, Sir, you cannot. JOHNSON. 'But I will, Sir, if I choose. I shall make the best of them you shall pick out, better. BOSWELL. 'But you may add to them.
Her white gown emphasized the straight line of her figure. She paused to ponder some new arrangement of a line of hydrangeas, and he caught a glimpse of her against a pillar of crimson ramblers. Then he went back to the Baron. "How much of our row in the hills got into the newspapers?" he asked, sitting down. "Nothing, absolutely nothing.
After all, the time that intervened between Monday and Friday afternoon was spent in waiting, and even the hours toward the last were counted. The expression in Graydon's dark blue eyes was always the same when he greeted her, and recalled the line: "Kinder than Love is my true friend." On Saturdays they took long tramps, seeking objective points far beyond the range of ordinary ramblers.
"Everybody'd call us 'The Crimson Ramblers, or 'The Scarlet Runners, or something else horrid," tittered that precocious child Beechy. "It isn't red, it's grey," Terry managed hastily to interpolate; which settled one burning question, the first which had been settled or seemed likely to be settled at our present rate of progress.
Not "Rasselas," surely that stilted romance. "The Lives of the Poets" are but a succession of prefaces, and the "Ramblers" of ephemeral essays. There is the monstrous drudgery of the Dictionary, a huge piece of spadework, a monument to industry, but inconceivable to genius. "London" has a few vigorous lines, and the "Journey to the Hebrides" some spirited pages.
The Gymnasium, the Boxing Club, the Swimming Club, the Roller-skating Club, the Cricket, Football, Lawn Tennis, Athletic, Rowing, Cycling, Ramblers and Harriers Clubs all invited him to join. Surely, among so many clubs there must be one that he would like. Of course they had their showy uniform, their envied Captains and other officers, their field days, their public days, and their prizes.
Having pushed over the valley, and once more ascended to the regions of perpetual ice, the ramblers determined to "attack" as the phrase goes among Alpine climbers a neighbouring summit. It was not a very high one, and Emma declared that she was not only quite able, but very anxious, to attempt it.
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