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It was show-day at Yalding Castle, and it seemed good to the children to go and visit Mabel, and, as Gerald put it, to mingle unsuspected with the crowd; to gloat over all the things which they knew and which the crowd didn't know about the castle and the sliding panels, the magic ring and the statues that came alive.
Close to this hung a bell-pull formed of a large wooden acorn attached to a vertical rod. Somerset's application brought a woman from the porter's door, who informed him that the day before having been the weekly show-day for visitors, it was doubtful if he could be admitted now. 'Who is at home? said Somerset. 'Only Miss de Stancy, the porteress replied.
Two singular things had happened that day which made his craving to see Helen almost unbearable just to rest his eyes upon her for a little while, he could ask no more. And as they passed along that well-remembered road, every tree, every leaf by the wayside, it seemed, spoke to him and called upon the dear memory of his two walks with her into town and out of town, on show-day.
Some amount of softness makes for charm, and is extremely popular: "#I do# like that because it's so nice and soft" is a regular show-day remark in the studio, and is always meant as a great compliment, but is seldom taken as such by the suffering painter.
A high-spirited girl finds it hard to be bound down to rule and regulation. But the porter he is an intelligent man he would tell you where she had gone to." "I asked him; he didn't know. All he could say was that she left the hospital on the morning of Lord Mayor's Show-day." "That would be the 9th of November the day we took our vows."
He had been Lord Mayor; and on his Show-day the Equipments of chivalry had been more Sumptuous, the Banners more varied, the Entertainment at Saddlers' Hall, where the Lord Mayor was wont to hold his Feast before the present Mansion House was built, the ancient Guildhall in King Street being then but in an ill condition for banquet, Hopwood's Entertainment, I say, had been more plentifully provided with Marrowbones, Custards, Ruffs and Reeves, Baked Cygnets, Malmsey, Canary, and Hippocras, than had ever been known since the days of the Merry Mayor, who swore that King Charles the Second should take t'other bottle.
You take that kind of a lady usually, and catch her in a crowd like the one show-day, and she can't help doing the Grand Duchess, giving the tenants a treat but not her; she didn't seem to separate herself from 'em, some way." "She is a fine lady," said the other simply. "I did not accept her renunciation, though I acknowledge I forbade it with a very poignant envy.
"He's be'n steady ever sence the night you brought him out home; six weeks straight. I'm kind of bothered about to-morrow It's show-day and he wants to come in town with us, and seems if I hadn't any call to say no. I reckon he'll have to take his chances and us, too." He raised the reins and clucked to the gray mare; "Well, she'll be mad I ain't there long ago. Ride in with me?"
That's always the way in life. If you are spiteful about anythink it always comes back on yourself." The street opposite the court-house for the time converted into a polling-booth was thronged like a show-day with an orderly crowd of citizens of both sexes.
Harkless," he said in a shaking spindle of a voice, as plaintive as his pale little eyes. "Mother Wimby, she sent some roses to ye. Cynthy's fixin' 'em on yer table. I'm well as ever I am; but her, she's too complaining to come in fer show-day. This morning, early, we see some the Cross-Roads folks pass the place towards town, an' she sent me in to tell ye. Oh, I knowed ye'd laugh.
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