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Milord, too, was of opinion that they could not absent themselves, and he had doubtless been able to arrive at a very clear understanding with Lady Sarah and Lady Jane concerning the future of Protestantism in the parish, for on the day of the tennis-party no allusion was made to Lord Kilcarney's visit to Brookfield; certain references to his marriage were, of course, inevitable, but it was only necessary to question Mr.
As he sweats at his gardening, the sounds of piano-playing come to him, or of the affected excitement of a tennis-party; or the braying of a motor-car informs him that the rich who are his masters are on the road. And though the man should go into his cottage and shut the door, these things must often have for him a sinister meaning which he cannot so easily shut out.
It was a grown-up tennis-party, and Daisy, although she had brought her racket, was a little afraid to play; besides, she wanted to consult young Mr. Netherby about Don, who had been left with the cart in the stables. Mr. Netherby, who was a good-natured, red-faced young soldier, just about to join his regiment, was not playing either, so Daisy went up to him on the first opportunity.
Because of him I trailed a fatuous tragedy through the Thesigers' house and over the green lawns of the Close, under the eyes of the young subalterns and of Victoria and Norah. Well, on that Tuesday he arrived. He was asked for a week and he stayed three days; and in those three days I had forgiven him everything for the sake of his performance. He arrived in the middle of a tennis-party.
'Not a bit tired? 'You blessing! When I am tired of you, I shall be tired of life. 'How wonderful it all seems! 'Does it not? 'To think of that first day at the tennis-party. "I hope you are not a very good player, Mr. Crosse!" "No, Miss Selby, but I shall be happy to make one in a set." That's how we began. And now! 'Yes, it is wonderful. 'And at dinner afterwards.
As the girls left the breakfast-room one morning she said, as if asking their advice: 'I have just received an invitation from Dungory Castle; they are giving a tennis-party, and they want us to go to lunch. 'Oh! mamma, I don't want to go, cried Olive. 'And why, my dear?
They all trooped into the dining-room, but Timmy was the only one who did full justice to the cakes and scones which had been made specially in Godfrey Radmore's honour: all the others felt cross and disappointed, especially Tom and Rosamund, who had given up going to a tennis-party.
He remembered that he had heard the carriage ordered for two o'clock they were all going to a tennis-party some miles distant. Under the circumstances she might walk about the grounds without being noticed. He did not think any of the gardeners would question her, and, if they did, he could trust her to give an evasive answer.
We never missed a tennis-party last year; we used to go sometimes ten miles to them, so eager was mamma after Captain Gibbon, and it did not come off; and then the whole country laughs. 'And who is Captain Gibbon? I never heard of him before. 'No, you don't know him: he was not in Galway in your time. 'And Captain Hibbert! Have you heard from him since he went out to India?
But now that we are in this heathen land, I want your promise that you will always tell me where you are going to when you go out always. If it's out for a ride in the desert or over amongst them mummy-tombs, or out to a tennis-party or dance. Will you, dearie? Always?"
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