United States or Greenland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Madeline nodded. "Easily. It's going to be awfully clever this time. Then that leaves only Friday. Let's drive out to Smuggler's Notch in the afternoon and have supper at Mrs. Noble's." "Oh, yes," agreed Betty. "That will make such a perfectly lovely end-up to the week. And of course we shall all want to take her to Cuyler's and Holmes's. May I have her for Tuesday breakfast?
"I should think it would be nicer to wait awhile and have it for a sort of grand end-up to the riding season." "Why, there isn't but one more moon before commencement," explained Babbie, "and if we wait for that it may be too hot. Who wants to go on a bacon-roast in hot weather?" "The 'Merry Hearts' are going to decide about passing on the society, aren't they?" asked Rachel.
The speech just rolled off my eloquent tongue and the people laughed in the right places, just as the people at the college did, and the Colonel blew his nose like a trumpet when I said the short sentences about the memorial table to be put in the hallway to the "fellows who have gone," while the end-up, with its funny little dedication to the immortals bound in leather that would live on the library shelf and the ones hound in serge and corduroy that would sit at the tables in reading-room, brought the storm of applause that sounded like a tornado.
And yet, when the children came to think of it, what else could it have been? They were annoyed at themselves for not thinking of such an obvious thing. Major Campbell laughed again when he saw the blank look on three faces. "It's a poor end-up, isn't it?" he said. "Why did you force me into it? But there is still the stone, if you would like to see it.
"Hullo!" she said; "mum's out." "So I hear," I said; "won't you kiss me?" "Oh! I forgot," she said, twirling round on one leg and holding out a cheek to be kissed. "There's going to be a party to it." "So I see," I said; "what sort of a party?" "Oh! it's the end-up of the dancing class, four to seven; that's why mum asked you to come early." "She isn't in yet?" I asked innocently.
At the corner near the window on the fancy side a little nook had been formed by screening off a portion of the counter with large flower-boxes placed end-up. This corner had come to be known as "Miss Baines's corner." Sophia hastened to it, squeezing past a young lady assistant in the narrow space between the back of the counter and the shelf-lined wall.
"It's all right except the end-up," answered Albert, "and on that I think you had best skip me. As I said, it's a diversion I can't afford. I've no money to spare to buy wine for ballet girls." "Oh, that's all right," responded Frank cheerfully. "I've asked you out and it's my treat. I'll pay the shot this time."
Who knew when Emily Davis would be back to do her temperance lecture or how long it would be before they could hear Madame Patti sing "Home, Sweet Home" through a wheezy gramophone? "Was it all right?" Eleanor whispered to Betty as they hunted up their wraps a little later. "Perfectly splendid," said Betty with shining eyes. "The loveliest end-up to the loveliest commencement that ever was."
Word Of The Day