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Nearly every one had letters; there was even something for Martin. Standing where they had landed, seated on bits of rock, on the grass, or on camp-chairs, all read their letters. While thus engaged a gentleman approached the party from the direction of Camp Roy. He was tall, well built, handsomely dressed in a suit of light-brown tweed, and carried himself with a buoyant uprightness.
It was not, however, without a feeling of trepidation natural to a stranger that she made her way to that meeting when the afternoon arrived. No sooner was she seated in Mrs. Holt's drawing-room filled with camp-chairs for the occasion than she found herself listening breathlessly to a recital of personal experiences by a young woman who worked in a bindery on the East side.
It was not, however, without a feeling of trepidation natural to a stranger that she made her way to that meeting when the afternoon arrived. No sooner was she seated in Mrs. Holt's drawing-room filled with camp-chairs for the occasion than she found herself listening breathlessly to a recital of personal experiences by a young woman who worked in a bindery on the East side.
Benson himself was in command, but he turned the placing of the string-timbers over to his foreman and climbed to the platform of the superintendent's service-car. "I won't hold you more than a few minutes," he began, but the superintendent pointed to one of the camp-chairs and sat down, saying: "There's no hurry.
Usually these were Leon Kantor's own people pouring up from the lowly lands of the East Side to the white lands of Broadway, parched for music, these burning brethren of his old men in that line, frequently carrying their own little folding camp-chairs, not against weariness of the spirit but of the flesh; youth with Slavic eyes and cheek-bones.
By the light of a single candle it seemed to be a gloomy, dirty, and barn-like apartment; but the cot was the only thing in the shape of a bed that I had seen in Siboney, outside of the hospitals, and we accepted it for Miss Barton with grateful hearts. The employees of the post-office were all sleeping in camp-chairs or on the counters and floors. Where Mr.
The tent-flaps tied open, the mattresses laid, the blankets turned back, the camp-table with candle-stick upon it, and a couple of camp-chairs at the door of the tent.
The Patience did not sail until six o'clock, but we were so anxious to put New York behind us that at five we were on board. Our cabin was an outside one with two berths. After placing our suitcases in it, we collected camp-chairs and settled ourselves in a cool place on the boat deck.
The long, frequently rough drives under the yellowing trees in the golden September light, the camp-chairs, the wine in plain bottles, the improvised kitchen hidden among the bushes, the many young people of high rank all so gay, the king full of liveliness and brusqueness, his queen full of motherliness and consideration for all everything was delightful.
And she added in a moved voice, as if seeking to explain herself: "Well, think of the hard life he has down there, Cally, no pleasure, no fun, no companionship.... And this is the first notice of any kind ..." The meeting was over. The crowded parlors were in a hubbub. Colored servants entered, taking away the camp-chairs. A general drift toward the platform was in evidence.
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