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Just let me find my muffler and my skates," and off tore Peter, while Betty tucked up her gown preparatory to an afternoon on the Collect Pond, whose frozen surface was the resort of all fashionable New York, both those who joined the skaters, and others who watched them from the surrounding banks, making a gay, bright winter scene for the spectators as well as the participants.
"'Oh, do skate, Mr. Winkle, said Arabella. 'I like to see it so much. "'Oh, it is so graceful, said another young lady. A third young lady said it was elegant, and a fourth expressed her opinion that it was 'swanlike. "'I should be very happy, I'm sure, said Mr. Winkle, reddening, 'but I have no skates. "This objection was at once overruled.
Yet she had no doubt that she was following their trail not even when she came down to the outlet of the pond. The strokes of the skates upon the ice were still visible. The three boys had certainly gone down the frozen stream. "Come on, Reno!" she exclaimed aloud, encouraging herself in her duty. "We'll find them yet.
"Papa," said Lulu, "may they get a pair for me? I'd like to learn to skate." He turned to her with an indulgent smile. "Would you? then you shall; I will send for the skates and give you a lesson in the art myself. I used to be reckoned a good skater in my boyhood. Would my little Grace like to learn too?" "No, thank you, papa, I'd rather walk on the ground, or ride."
"Here, Frank," he said; "I'm getting tired of this. Take my skates, and let us see what you are capable of on ice." Doctor Frank put on the skates, and struck off. Rose, flashing past, gave him a bright backward glance. "Catch me, Doctor Danton!" she cried. "Catch me if you can!" "A fair field and no favour!" exclaimed Stanford, wheeling round. "Come on Danton; I am going to try, too."
An' Laura waits for me an' tells me to be sure to get 'em on tight enough why, bless me! after I once got 'em strapped on, if them skates hed come off, the feet wud ha' come with 'em! An' now away we go Laura and me. Around the bend near the medder where Si Barker's dog killed a woodchuck last summer we meet the rest. We forget all about the cold.
'Wal, you are a knowin' shave, was his complimentary observation to Mr. Holt. ''Twar a smart idee, and no mistake. You'll only want to fix runners in front of the ice-sled goin' back, an' 'twill carry any load as easy as drinkin'. 'Spose you han't got an old pair of skates handy?
There she sat with her fur cap on her head, holding her skates in her hand by the cord: she was tired—and she was thinking. Daniel entered the room and greeted her; she looked up, and said with a gentle voice: “I am with child, Daniel; I found it out to-day.” He fell on his knees, and kissed the tips of her fingers.
We might try them on and see if they are big enough to wear them. They are in the bag hanging back of the press." Kit and Kat almost screamed with joy. "Our feet are quite large. I'm sure we can wear them," they said. Father Vedder got the bag down and took out two pairs of skates. They had long curling ends on the runners. The Twins sat down on the floor. Father Vedder tried on the skates.
Lila counted off her crimes, and she didn't speak so very low either. "Mary Winchester doesn't deserve a place even in the tenth class. Why, listen now. You admit that she borrows disgracefully and never returns things. At least, she helped herself to my skates. It is almost the same as stealing. She has no friends.
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