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"Sorry, but it has to be," he added. "This is work for men, and men alone." Janet and Mary climbed up into the seat. "You you will take care of yourself," Janet said, tremulously. "I expect to. Still, this isn't going to be a croquet party; anything may happen. Good-by." With that he swung about and breaking into a run made for a small building half-buried in the hillside and apart from the camp.
She sent us off for long walks together Margaret was a fairly good walker she exhumed some defective croquet things and incited us to croquet, not understanding that detestable game is the worst stimulant for lovers in the world.
Now, if things really are so bad, if you really believe all you have been saying, you ought not to be sitting drinking your tea as you are now, or to have spent the afternoon playing croquet with us girls; you ought to gird yourself with sackcloth, and go up and down the land, raising the alarm, and saying, 'Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
The happy thought occurred to her of a summer resort in the heart of these glorious woods, within easy reach of Strasburg." There are gardens and reception-rooms in common, and here as at Gerardmer croquet, music and the dance offer an extra attraction.
You're going to put some other pieces of wood on the end of these sticks, Bunker, and make croquet mallets of them so we can have a game!" "Is that it?" asked Bunny. "Is it for croquet?" "No, that isn't what they're for," answered Bunker, smiling. "Anyhow," went on Bunny Brown, "we couldn't play croquet in the woods here, 'cause we haven't any croquet balls."
Lots of English words are just the same in French at least I know "miaw" is, and "croquet", and "fiance". Oh, pussies, do be quiet! Let's stroke them as hard as we can with both hands, and perhaps they'll stop.
Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so. I think that Mrs Dale was wrong. She would have joined that party on the croquet ground, instead of remaining among the pea-sticks in her sun-bonnet, had she done as I would have counselled her. Not a word was spoken among the four that she did not hear.
As to poor M. le Blanc, I find him dancing and shrieking with fury in the midst of a circle of snorting, giggling boys; and when he points out ce petit monstre, Jock coolly owns to having translated 'Croquons les, let us croquet them; or 'Je suis blesse, I am blest." "So the infusion of brains produces too much effervescence."
They all went into the house at about seven o'clock, after a good deal of croquet and flirtation, and found a free-and-easy kind of banquet, half tea, half luncheon, but very substantial after its kind, waiting for them in the long low dining-room. Mrs.
The croquet practice still survived. In truth, Fanny was afraid to ride lest Lord Keith should join her, and was glad to surround herself with companions. She could not see the enemy without a nervous trepidation, and was eager to engross herself with anybody or thing that came to hand so as to avoid the necessity of attending to him. More than once did she linger among her boys "to speak to Mr.
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