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Updated: June 12, 2025
That touch of superiority made short work of Darsie's hesitation. She would show that she was in no need of pity, that so far from being overpowered by failure, she remained jaunty and self-confident enough to turn her own disappointment into a joke for the amusement of others!
A voice separated itself from the confused babel, and struck on Darsie's ear, but even as her heart leaped upward another voice spoke. "It is not a case of swimming. If he were not quick enough in getting away if he were caught beneath penned!" The strong arm gripped her more firmly still, steadied her trembling. A fierce voice issued an order for "Silence! Silence!"
Beside the Percivals' Parisian creations, Darsie's simple dress made but a poor show, but then Darsie's dresses were wont to take a secondary place, and to appear but as a background to her fresh young beauty, instead of as is too often the case a dress par excellence, with a girl tightly laced inside.
"I hope your friend did not think me inhospitable for not including her in my invitation to-day, but when I want to get to know a girl I prefer to have her entirely to myself. Perhaps she will come another day. Vernon's sister ought to be worth knowing." "You know Dan?" Darsie's smile was somewhat anxious, for Dan's own manner with respect to her hostess was still a disturbing element.
The worst of it was that he had only a few of the smaller things in his pockets, none of the really big, valuable pieces." "Goodness!" Darsie's eyes sparkled with animation. "That was an excitement. I wish I'd been here. Go on! What happened after that?" "Oh, my dear, the most awful evening!
To Darsie's mind, the entire programme as supplied by "the families" was dull to extinction, but to one possessing even her own slight knowledge of the village, the contributions of its worthies were brimful of interest and surprise.
Hannah Vernon was of all the Freshers the least upset by their scrutiny, but then plain Hannah was proverbially thick-skinned about the opinion of others. "Let 'em stare if it amuses 'em I don't mind! Long time since I've been so much admired," she returned composedly to Darsie's indignant whisper. "Every dog has its day. Wait till it's our turn!
"Rebuild it!" was Darsie's instant and daring reply, whereat the farmers' daughters laughed en masse, and the Percivals looked haughtily displeased. "Father built it!" "Awfully good of him! And wicked of his architect. I shan't employ him to build my house!" "I think," said Noreen loftily, "that we had better confine ourselves to discovering the scheme of decoration.
Despite her weariness and nervous exhaustion, Lady Hayes had made what appeared to Darsie's unsophisticated eyes a magnificent toilette for the meal, and she eyed the Sunday frock with a criticism which was anything but approving.
It would have required an experienced hand to guide the heavy punt through the sweeping current, and under Darsie's unpractised strokes it twisted, and turned, and revolved in aimless and disconcerting circles... No matter! she was determined to win; by hook or by crook she must make the left side of the stream and gain an anchorage.
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