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After we had passed more woodland and a well-known quarry, where, for a wonder, the derrick was not creaking and not a single hammer was clinking at the stone wedges, we did not see any one hoeing in the fields, as we had seen so many on the white rose road, the other side of the hills. Presently we met two or three people walking sedately, clad in their best clothes.
Instead mindful, perhaps, that "a man should not communicate his own glorie" he stepped sedately down to the trim green skiff and was rowed ashore by a boy who, for aught that either knew, might three months before have jostled him at some ill-favoured lunch counter.
"An original character, apparently," he said. "He doesn't aim to let grass grow under his feet." Between two and three Britt bustled into Mendenhall's, making for the office. "Oh, I say!" he puffed, as Mendenhall rose. "Banked that check yet?" "Not yet," replied the other sedately. "It is our custom to send the day's checks for deposit just before three. Nothing wrong, I trust?"
As they passed from sight, he turned back into the trees and walked swiftly and silently away. It was nearly a mile across the park to the lake in the hollow, and the boy and girl tramped it steadily with scarcely a word. Chops walked sedately by Toby's side, occasionally poking his nose under her hand. Bunny's face was stern. He had the look of a man who moved with a definite goal in view.
She was not accustomed to young gentlemen with such a manner and such a savoir faire. 'Won't you sit down? She moved sedately to one side of the bench. He settled himself at once, fanning himself with his hat, and looking at her discreetly. 'You're American, aren't you? You don't mind my asking you? 'Not in the least. Yes; it's my first time in Europe. 'Well, Italy's not bad; is it?
So saying, I lay down the hand-glass, and walk sedately down-stairs, holding my head stiffly erect, and looking over my shoulder, like a child, at the effect of my blue train sweeping down the steps after me. Arrived in my boudoir, I go and stand by the window, though there are yet ten minutes before he is due.
With all my faults, at least I am honest; and when I bow my stiff neck under the yoke connubial, I promise you I will keep step demurely and sedately. Do you remember a sombre book we read while yachting, which contained this brave confession of a woman, whose marriage made her historic? 'I thought I had done with life. I knew I had now cause to be proud of belonging to this man, and I was proud.
Betty was ready, though her face had grown a little grave, and with a last look at the glass, they caught hands and went sedately down the winding stair. In the hall below they met Mrs. Lightfoot, who sent Virginia into the panelled parlour, and bore Betty off to the kitchen to taste the sauce for the plum pudding.
"It's something to do, really, after all isn't it?" "Yes," her aunt agreed, sedately; "something big to do. For my part, I joined church circles, and worked first for the heathen." "Oh, bother the heathen!" Cicily ejaculated, rudely. "Charles is heathen enough for me!" With her characteristic impulsiveness, she sprang to her feet, as Mrs.
The sight of the gardeners mowing, for the last time in the season, the hundred-year-old turf of the lawn conveyed a suggestion of regret with it; the old pony harnessed to the mowing machine stepped sedately and quietly in his boots on the close, fine grass.
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