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Mrs. Wilson was present during most of the time, which prevented the embarrassment which one at least of us must have felt. Miss Penclosa's manner was quite the same as usual, and she expressed no surprise at my having come in spite of my note. There was nothing in her bearing to show that yesterday's incident had made any impression upon her, and so I am inclined to hope that I overrated it.
The forenoon leaden and cloudy, not cold or wet, but indicating both. As I hobble down here and sit by the silent pond, how different from the excitement amid which, in the cities, millions of people are now waiting news of yesterday's Presidential election, or receiving and discussing the result in this secluded place uncared-for, unknown. Nov. 14.
Since that amazing moment at the prize-giving, all his repressed ferment had welled up and overflowed; and when an imaginative, emotional nature loses grip on the reins, the pace is apt to be headlong, the course perilous.... He had dined at the Eltons' a lively party; chaff and laughter and champagne; and Miss Arden after yesterday's graciousness in a tantalising, elusive mood.
She drew in deep breaths of briny air. "Gabrielle, you are a mystery to me. Four years out of convent, and not a lover; I mean one upon whom you might bestow love. And that handsome Vicomte d'Halluys?" "Pouf! I would not throw him yesterday's rose." "And Monsieur de Saumaise?" "Well, yes; he is a gallant fellow. And I fear that I have brought trouble into his household. But love him?
He turned toward it, and Jewel advanced with a smile of recognition. She had had to look twice to identify her fine plum-colored companion of yesterday's drive with this youth in shirt sleeves and a soft old hat. "Well, little girl, how are you getting on?" he asked. "Pretty well, thank you." Her beaming expression left no doubt that she was very glad to see him.
Chairman, may we have the secretary read the points brought out by yesterday's recitation? What is meant by the "socialized recitation" as the term is here used? Define separately the word "socialized" as used in this connection. What are the teacher's functions in such a recitation? What are the teacher's functions in the traditional recitation?
A legend I am afraid it may be, in the most discreditable meaning of the term; or perhaps something worse a mere yesterday's fiction. But it is a story of some vitality, and is worthy of a place in the Edinburgh kalendar. This pair inhabited a single room; from the facts, it must have been double-bedded; and it may have been of some dimensions; but when all is said, it was a single room.
The two youngest Miss Thorpes were by themselves in the parlour; and, on Anne's quitting it to call her sister, Catherine took the opportunity of asking the other for some particulars of their yesterday's party.
Of course it can't be helped; and if we had waited another half-hour we should have had all the French army on us, and yesterday's work would have been mere child's play to it. Still I can quite enter into the soldier's feelings.
And then we plod back through the darkness to the inn beside the river. How quick bright things come to confusion! When we arise next morning, the grey showers fall steadily, the trees hang limp, and the face of the stream is spoiled with dimpling raindrops. Yesterday's lilies encumber the garden walk, or begin, dismally enough, their voyage towards the Seine and the salt sea.
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