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Ridgely had kept himself closely at the lady's right. "You were mistaken, my boy," he said, falsely benevolent. "It isn't a party though there's Miss Florence, Noble. Nobody's asked her to go walking to-day!" Now, Florence took this satire literally. She jumped up and said brightly: "I just as soon! Let's do have a walking-party. I just as soon walk with Mr.
The walking-party left the house at once, directing their steps northward, so as not to pass the windows of Sea-view Cottage. To Mrs.
One sat beside the driver. Dallas put herself in their path, and waited. How often she had watched these same ladies canter out of post on their horseback rides, officers attending them; or seen them make a rollicking walking-party to the bluff-top. And she had pictured how, some day, they would be ferried to the bend. They could not have heard how her father talked.
He could see Purday among his cabbages in the garden; and further off, could watch the walking-party through the fields, his father with little George in his arms, and Uncle John as often as possible by his side; while the others frisked about, sometimes spreading out like a flock of sheep in the pasture land, or when they came to the narrow paths in the cornfields, all getting into single file, and being lost sight of all but their heads.
"Miss Atwater and I are just starting for a walk." "You see, Noble," said the kind-hearted Julia, "I did tell you I had another engagement." "I came by here," Mr. Dill began in a tone commingling timidity, love, and a fatal stubbornness; "I came by here I mean I just happened to be passing and I thought if it was a walking-party, well, why not go along? That's the way it struck me."
From time to time she glanced over her shoulder at the switching skirt, and increased its radius of action, though this probably required more exercise, compared to the extent of ground covered, than any lady member of a walking-party had ever before taken, merely as a pedestrian.
We are most fortunate in our choice of a day, for it is warm, with a moisture in the atmosphere that veils forms and enriches color. We should call it 'Indian summer' were we at home." Before they had quite reached the old city at the top, the carriage containing Mrs. Douglas, Miss Sherman, and Howard overtook them, and the latter sprang out to join the walking-party. Such a day as followed!
She managed to give herself a rhythmical, switching motion, causing her kneelength skirt to swing from side to side a pomp that brought her a great deal of satisfaction as she now and then caught the effect by twisting her neck enough to see down behind, over her shoulder. But her poise was temporarily threatened when the walking-party passed her own house.
This morning there were only Imogen, and Etty, the youngest; a walking-party had gone off up the Cherry Mountain road, and Ginevra was upstairs, packing; for the Thoresbys had also suddenly decided to leave for Outledge on the morrow. Mrs. Thoresby declared, in confidence, to Mrs.
After that the rear rank, a little abashed, consented to fall back some paces. Julia's heightened colour, meanwhile, was little abated by some slight episodes attending the progress of the walking-party.
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