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They must have had fine sociable times, though, together; cruising about the Irish Sea in quest of Liverpool-bound vessels; smoking cigars, drinking brandy-and-water, and spinning yarns; till at last, one by one, they are all scattered on board of different ships, and meet again by the side of a blazing sea-coal fire in some Liverpool taproom, and prepare for another yachting.
I don't think the night air is good for you. Besides, it isn't proper for a woman to be out after dark, whether she's new or not." "But, my dear Mrs. Noah," expostulated Cleopatra, "what will become of the ship?" "I guess she'll float through the night whether we are on deck or not," said the commander. "The Ark did, why not this? Now, girls, these new-fangled yachting notions are all nonsense.
If Jones, who was Tompkins's best man, goes yachting with Tompkins in later days, these two sinners are quite capable of enjoying themselves immensely in the present without raking about among the ashes of the past to seek the reason why Tompkins persisted, in spite of his friends' advice, in making an idiot of himself over that Robinson girl Jones standing by all the while with the ring in his waistcoat pocket.
"Yachting is simply another word for imprisonment to me. I told Bruce I should certainly drown myself if I went with them." "I should like to introduce you to a form of yachting that is not imprisonment," said Hunt-Goring. Violet laughed. "Oh, I should have to be mistress of the yacht for that." "Even so," he rejoined significantly.
I relate it as a good instance of one of his minor peculiarities. He was utterly without that didactic pedantry which yachting has a fatal tendency to engender In men who profess it.
I don't suppose she meant it, but she said it as if she regretted his coming. "Is he fond of yachting?" I asked. "It bores him to tears," she laughed. "Most of the things which I like do. Still, he is very good to me. I am an old man's darling, you know." It was the first time she had mentioned her husband, and she had not shown the slightest curiosity in my affairs.
Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.
If he could meet her abroad, or at the seaside, he would not go off yachting without her, nor postpone his holiday till the shooting had begun rather than spend the month of June with her in the suburbs. If he lives in the same neighbourhood as his beloved he will have many opportunities of being with her.
Frank at once obtained a partner, in order to avoid having to talk the unpleasant business over with yachting friends. Presently he sat down by the side of Lady Greendale. "I am so sorry, Frank," she said. "It does seem hard when you had set your mind on it." "I had hoped to win," he said, "but it is not as bad as all that after all.
But it's not very encouraging to the desirous tourist." "Then you were disappointed?" said Heath. "You should have gone to Bou-Saada," said Mrs. Mansfield. "You would have seen the real thing there. Why didn't you?" "Adelaide Shiffney started in such a hurry, before I had had time to see anything, or recover from the horrors of yachting. You know how she rushes on as if driven by furies."
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