Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
The "hired man" was as well dressed as any gentleman in the room, and I have never seen a more graceful dancer than that tall, young Scotchman. LaHume watched him like a hawk. When Wallace claimed Miss Lawrence for a schottische the glum LaHume stood by the door and looked as if he would rather fight than dance. Chilvers told him he was making an ass of himself.
Nor did he move when Professor Wotherspoon's voice made the next announcement. 'In Senior Greek, the first prize is taken by Bruno Leathwaite Chilvers. 'Then I suppose Peak comes second, muttered Buckland. So it proved. Summoned to receive the inferior prize, Godwin Peak, his countenance harsher than before, his eyes cast down, moved ungracefully to the estrade.
The discovery of such fantastic liberality in a man whom he could not but dislike and contemn gave him no pleasure, but at least it disposed him to amusement rather than antagonism. Chilvers' pronunciation and phraseology were distinguished by such original affectation that it was impossible not to find entertainment in listening to him.
"Who told you that Miss Grace Harding is coming to Woodvale?" "Carter told me," replied Chilvers. "Carter knows them. The whole Harding family is coming, which includes Croesus, his wife, and their fair daughter, aged nineteen or thereabouts. Ah! why did I marry so soon?" Mrs. Chilvers was standing back of him and soundly boxed his ears.
I might play with Marshall or Chilvers a thousand times and not know or care if the links were garbed in green or yellow, or if the clouds were pink or Van Dyke brown, but as I said before, the only sentiment aroused by association with these vindictive golf fiends is a wild and unreasoning desire to beat the life out of them at their own game.
I raised the curtain so as to let in the cool air. The links were bathed in a flood of moonlight. Half a mile away were Bishop's cornfields in which the dreamland fiends had tortured me. It was not yet midnight, and down the lane I made out the forms of Chilvers, Marshall, Lawson, and other nighthawks.
Peak, Sidwell whispered to her mother, with satisfaction. Buckland kept silence for a few minutes, then muttered: 'There's nothing I care about now till Chemistry and Geology. Here comes old Wotherspoon. Now we shall know who is strongest in second aorists. I shouldn't wonder if Peak takes both Senior Greek and Latin. I heartily hope he'll beat that ass Chilvers.
There goes an auto boat darting through a swarm of sail boats like a bird through fluttering butterflies. It is a glorious view from here!" "It makes the Rhine look like counterfeit money," asserted Chilvers, whose similes usually are grotesque. "Any time you hear an American raving over the wonderful scenery of Europe you can place a bet that he has never seen that of his own country."
"Last season's society sensation in Paris and London?" exclaimed Miss Dangerfield. "Daughter of the great railway magnate?" asked Marshall. "The one to whom Baron Torpington was reported engaged?" I added. "You all have guessed it the first time," laughed Chilvers.
I know it's the sort of thing that might slip any gentleman's mind, but I thought it might be worth mentioning. So now!" Roland, perspiring in the shadows at the far end of the room, felt that Miss Chilvers was overdoing it. There was no earthly need for all this sort of thing. Just a simple announcement of the engagement would have been quite sufficient.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking