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They lived in good homes, they had servants, they week-ended here and there. Of the dozen or more young men and women present, only himself and Stubby Abbott made any pretense at work. Yet somebody paid for all they had and did. Men in offices, in shops, in fishing boats and mines and logging camps worked and sweated to pay for all this well-being in which they could have no part.
"Yes," agreed Nurse Rosemary, "and you almost dread the coming, because the going makes the darkness darker, and the loneliness more lonely." "Ah, so YOU experienced that?" said Garth. "Do you know, now you have week-ended in Sightless Land, I shall not feel it such a place of solitude. At every turn I shall be able to say: 'A dear and faithful friend has been here."
Because I met her at Ostend on Sunday night, to be sure. I week-ended there, you know. Thought I'd have a private bit of a spree, before I had to be officially on the Spree." He chuckled at the futile pun. "You saw Anne Pendennis at Ostend. Are you certain it was she?" I demanded. "Of course I am. She looked awfully fetching, and gave me one of her most gracious bows " "You didn't speak to her?"
At a country house where he once week-ended a burglar scare had inspired feverish intensive pistol practice among the guests and Archie had learned to load and fire and even developed some skill as a marksman. There were three cartridges in the magazine and Archie thrust it into his pocket thinking it not a bad idea to be prepared for invasion.
Dalmain, can you spare me for a few days at the end of this week?" "Oh, why?" said Garth. "To go where? And for how long? Ah, I know I ought to say: 'Certainly! Delighted! after all your goodness to me. But I really cannot! You don't know what life was without you, when you week-ended! That week-end seemed months, even though Brand was here.
And we went on at that distance for a long time until within a year of the Handitch election. After Lady Colbeck threw her up as altogether too "intellectual" for comfortable control, Isabel was taken up by the Balfes in a less formal and compromising manner, and week-ended with them and their cousin Leonora Sparling, and spent large portions of her summer with them in Herefordshire.
So the place was sold, and Steynholme knows "the postmaster's daughter" no more. Winter and Furneaux week-ended with them recently at a pretty little nook in Dorset. Hart, just home from the Balkans, traveled from town with the detectives, and Doris, a radiant young matron, was as flippant as the best of them.
I can't say that we were envious of Shelby because of his single-blessedness he was only twenty-two at that time; but it hurt us to know that he didn't really have to work in Herald Square, and that he had neat bachelor quarters down in Gramercy Park, and a respectable club or two, and week-ended almost where he chose.
Miss Champion and I she is the duchess's niece, you know always played fair, and we nearly always made a dead heat of it." "Yes," said Nurse Rosemary, "I know that game. I thought of it at once when I had my blindfold meals." "Ah," cried Garth, "had I known, I would not have let you do it!" "I knew that," said Nurse Rosemary. "That was why I week-ended."
Along the rim of ragged slopes which put a term to the hundreds of miles of water that spread from the north, people tramped, bathed, canoed, motored and week-ended. Within a few seasons Duneland had acquired as great a reputation for "prahlerische Dunkelheit" for ostentatious obscurity as ever was enjoyed even by Schiller's Wallenstein.