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Madame was there, the prima-donna, if you chose to call her so: the rankest bloom of fifty summers, in white satin and pearls: a faded dahlia. Women hinted that the fragrance of the dahlia had not been healthful in the world; but they crowded to hear her: such a wonderful contralto!
Twelve summers and winters had passed over her little head without a cloud to obscure the sunshine of her life save one but that one was a terribly dark one, and its shadow lingered over her for many years.
It was advisable that Victoria should become acquainted with the various districts of England, and through several summers a succession of tours in the West, in the Midlands, in Wales were arranged for her. The intention of the plan was excellent, but its execution was unfortunate.
But I spent all my summers as a boy on my grandfather's farm, and there I drove horses and rode them and did acrobatic feats on their bare backs. I was a wild Indian, a cowboy, and a captain of cavalry by turns. Those were happy days, and on a day like this they don't seem long ago." "They can't be so dreadfully long ago," she dared, with a glance at the interesting profile beside her.
But while they told him he scarcely heard; he was looking at the handsome Antinous-like form of the lad as it lay stretched helpless and stricken before him; and he was remembering the death-bed of their mother, when the only voice he had ever reverenced had whispered, as she pointed to the little child of three summers: "When you are a man take care of him, Bertie."
Lady Susan had received a line from him by that day's post, informing her that Miss Summers had absolutely refused to allow of Miss Vernon's continuance in her academy; we were therefore prepared for her arrival, and expected them impatiently the whole evening. They came while we were at tea, and I never saw any creature look so frightened as Frederica when she entered the room.
I will now describe a game that gave Antoinette and me the greatest pleasure during those two delicious summers. We pretended to be two caterpillars, and we would creep along the ground upon our stomachs and our knees and hunt for leaves to eat.
Paul was already quite convinced that three or four good tourist summers would pay it off. Paul was not worrying. As we looked over the site together, I discovered that he smelled of brandy. Finally a small party of Norwegians and foreigners arrived, travelers who were out to walk, and not to drive in cars.
He was so handsome, so friendly, and in the four years he had been at Stanford University and the summers he had spent in hunting expeditions or in eastern visits to his aunt in New York, he had changed only to improve! Even in this first informal greeting it was Martie to whom he devoted his special attention. Sally was usually considered the prettier of the two, but Martie was lovely to-night.
Paul could not comprehend the meaning of those new and strange caprices. "One of those summers, which sometimes desolate the countries situated between the tropics, now spread its ravages over this island. It was near the end of December, when the sun in Capricorn darts over Mauritius, during the space of three weeks, its vertical fires.
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