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"In my time, my dear," he said to his niece, "people were expected to bring some agreeable quality with them to social meetings of this sort. In your time you have dispensed with all that. Here," remarked the old gentleman, taking up a croquet mallet from the table near him, "is one of the qualifications for success in modern society. And here," he added, taking up a ball, "is another. Very good.
"You know Sarah has been teaching me the new kind of croquet, at Hewelscourt, since we came back from Scotland?" he said. "I don't get on so badly, considering." "My poor boy!" "Oh, I was always rather inclined to be left-handed; it comes in usefully now," said Peter, who generally hurried over any reference to his misfortune.
"Do not say that he is dead!" "No, miss, but he has had a stroke of the heart or something, and the doctor thought you had better be fetched, so I have brought the carriage." "Come with me, Morris," she said, as, dropping the croquet mallet, she flew rather than ran to the brougham. Ten minutes later they were at Seaview. In the hall they met Mr. Charters, the doctor. Why was he leaving? Because
Mary Leighton, with a croquet mallet in her hand, was following Kilian through the hall to get a drink of water. She made a great outcry at me and my appearance. "What a headache you must have," she cried. "But ah! think what you've missed, dear! The tutor has been down at breakfast, or rather at the breakfast-table, for he didn't eat a thing.
Snowshoeing, yachting, rope-skipping, canoeing, archery, croquet, coasting and various similar pastimes are all to be commended. Swimming is of great value, both as a means of physical development and as a health builder, but if your vitality is limited do not stay in the water too long. Swimming may be made mild or very strenuous.
'We wanted her to come for croquet. Yet I was half afraid to come and ask her whilst Mr. Alfred was at home. She laughed, and at the same time blushed a little. 'Why should you be afraid of Alfred? asked Mrs. Waltham graciously. 'Oh, I don't know. She turned it off and spoke quickly of another subject. 'How did you like Mr. Wyvern this morning?
Oh, Mrs. Windsor, where are the tents to be for the school treat to-morrow?" "At the end of the croquet lawn. Mr. Smith says the children are terribly excited about it. Esmé, you must address the children before they sing their hymn on going away. They always end with a hymn. Mr. Smith thinks it quiets them."
"He's been adored by salesladies in New York," said Honora, "and he can't understand it." "He's been liked," Amabel Grantham summed him up. "He's a likable thing. He's even rather a dear. I've begun to like him myself." "I hear you are learning to play croquet," the Duke of Stone remarked to him a day or so later. "How do you like it?" "Lady Gwynedd Talchester is teaching me," Tembarom answered.
'No wonder they think I want an object in life, thought Ethel; 'how awfully tiresome I must be! Poor things, what can I say to make it pleasanter? Do you know this Dielytra? I think it is the prettiest of modern flowers, but I wish we might call it Japan fumitory, or by some English name. 'I used to garden once, but we have no flower-beds now, they spoilt the lawn for croquet.
"Yet people can gamble in playing croquet," Eurie said, thoughtfully. "Oh, yes, and people can gamble with pins, or in tossing up pennies.
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