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George impressed upon us to take a change of under-things and plenty of socks, in case we got upset and wanted a change; also plenty of handkerchiefs, as they would do to wipe things, and a pair of leather boots as well as our boating shoes, as we should want them if we got upset. THEN we discussed the food question. George said: "Begin with breakfast."
"And does she still remember me?" said I, in a very Romeo-in-the-garden voice. "Why, so far as remembering the little boy that used to play with her in the orchard at her mother's cottage near Pirna, and with whom she used to go boating upon the Elbe, I believe the recollection is perfect. But come along she insists upon seeing you, and is this very moment waiting supper in our room for you."
All that has been previously written fails to portray so vividly the mysterious life of the lonely forest, the grandeur of Katahdin or Ktaadn, that hermit-mountain, and the wild and adventurous navigation of those Northern water-courses whose perils make the boating of the Adirondack region seem safe and tame.
Nay, not only would I have men claim their arrearage, but lay in a surplus stock against future emergencies, future drafts upon their bank account of "restorer." Nor would I find any fault with the allurements of the Lake, either for swimming, boating, "launching," canoeing or fishing.
She gave fair promise to be at any rate equal to her sisters in beauty, and in mind was quick and intelligent. Her great taste was for boating, and the romance of her life consisted in laying out ideal pleasure-grounds, and building ideal castles in a little reedy island or ait which lay out in the Thames, a few perches from the drawing-room windows. Such was the family of the Woodwards.
There's boating there, and and games, I understand, and there's a literary colony near, so there'll be people for your grandfather. He thinks he may go on holding small Afternoons. It's a cottage inn." Joy did not know then what a cottage inn was, but neither did she care. She clasped her hands happily over the invisible wishing ring.
Thursday evening was the date for the ball and banquet. Friday the general exodus would begin. "What have you on hand for this morning?" asked Mary, as she and Elizabeth were dressing for breakfast. "There's plenty. I'm undecided what to do. One party is going boating; another plans to take a tally-ho ride, and have lunch under the trees which mark the place of the Wyoming massacre.
She wore brogues, and boots, and skating shoes, and puttees and tennis ties; sou'westers, leather topcoats, Jersey silks, military capes. You saw her fishing, hunting, boating, riding, golfing, snow-shoeing, swimming. She was equally lovely in khaki with woollen stockings, or in a habit of white linen and the shiniest of riding-boots.
Vassily had the tact and shrewdness not to talk to Olga in his presence; but he either made him laugh till he was ready to cry, or arranged some noisy entertainment, a riding expedition, a boating party by night with torches and music he did not in fact let Pavel Afanasievitch have a chance to think clearly.
It was endless fun to explore the mill; to squeeze into forbidden places, and be pulled out by the angry miller; to tyrannize over the mill hands, and be worshipped by them in return; to go boating on the river, and discover unvisited nooks, and search the woods and fields for kitchen herbs, and get lost, and be found, a hundred times a week.
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