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The horses' feet got balled with the stiff red clay exactly as though it had been snow, and from time to time as they galloped along, six fresh ones at every stage, I received a good lump of clay, as big and nearly as solid as a croquet-ball, full in my face.
"Very well," was the answer; "unfailing in spirits, every one agreed that he was the youngest man at the wedding." "Having outgrown his obnoxious sageness," said Bessie. "There is nothing he is so adroit at as guessing the fate of a croquet-ball by its sound." "Now Bessie," exclaimed Alick.
Her favourite seaside nook becomes the mermaid's haunt; her back hair flies and dries in the wind, and disturbs the peace of the too susceptible Punch. She wears a cricket-cap and breaks Aunt Sally's nose seven times; she puts her pretty little foot upon the croquet-ball and croquet'd you are completely! With what glee she would have rinked and tennised if he had lived a little longer!
"Yes-indeed!" replied the Incubus as though it were one word. His chair was planted squarely to exclude all others. Orde surveyed the situation with good-humour. "Going to keep the other fellow from getting a chance, I see." "Yes-indeed!" replied the Incubus. Orde bent over, and with great ease lifted Incubus, chair, and all, and set him facing Mignonne Smith and the croquet-ball.
Jane herself, tall, deliberate in movement and in speech, kindly and thoughtful, talked in a corner with Ernest Colburn, who was just out of college, and who worked in a bank. Mignonne Smith, a plump, rather pretty little body with a tremendous aureole of hair like spun golden fire, was trying to balance a croquet-ball on the end of a ruler. The ball regularly fell off.
Antony wanted to shout his applause. It was neat, devilish neat. For a moment he gazed, fascinated, at that wonderful new kind of croquet-ball which had appeared so dramatically out of the box, and then reluctantly wriggled himself back. There was nothing to be gained by staying there, and a good deal to be lost, for Bill showed signs of running down.
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