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Scott and Miss Percival had thought proper to put their feet on the footstools, placed in front of their great wicker garden-chairs filled with cushions; then they had thrown themselves lazily back in their chairs, and their muslin skirts had become raised a little, a very little, but yet enough to display four little feet, the lines of which showed very distinctly and clearly beneath two pretty clouds of white lace.
They sat at the northern end of the terrace, where the garden-chairs always stood, and before, beneath, all around them rose and fell the finest of all the fine Majorcan scenery scenery which only Sardinia can rival in Europe. Eve poured out his tea, which he drank, and set the cup aside.
A party of garden-chairs on the lawn invited repose, and there the ladies seated themselves; Fanny laying down her heavy crape bonnet, and showing her pretty little delicate face, now much fresher and more roseate than when she arrived, though her wide-spreading black draperies gave a certain dignity to her slight figure, contrasting with the summer muslins of her two cousins; as did her hot-house plant fairness, with their firm, healthy glow of complexion; her tender shrinking grace, with their upright vigour.
Buxton and the magistrate sat down on a couple of garden-chairs. "That is an obstinate fellow, sir," said Mr. Graves. "They are certainly both of them very offensive fellows, sir. I was astonished at your indulgence towards them." The magistrate was charmed by this view of the case, and remained talking with Mr.
Besides, it was very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible into walking sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place.
He was clerk, supercargo, anything that the interest of the Company demanded. He worked with a will. His thoughts were full of tea, silks, and lacquered ware, of exquisite carved ivory and wonderful porcelains, of bamboos, umbrellas, and garden-chairs, of Hong-Hi, Ching-Ho, and Fi-Fo-Fum.
"But this," she said, "though you might well think it so, is not the ninth wonder of the world." "I think the ninth wonder of the world, as well as the first and last, is walking beside me," said Anthony, in silence, to the sky. The path ended in an arbour, roofed and walled with rose-vines; and herein were garden-chairs and a table. "Shall we sit here a little?" proposed Susanna.
"The very cleverest of them can't resist the temptation of being photographed in group. Crime after crime has been brought home to the Indian criminal both here and in London because they will sit in garden-chairs and let a man take their portraits. Nothing will stop them. They won't learn. They are like the ladies of the light opera stage. Well, let 'em go on I say. Here's an instance."
The hotel clock struck the hour and still nothing happened. "I can walk no longer," Catherine said. She dropped on one of the garden-chairs, holding by her mother's hand. "Go to him, for God's sake!" she entreated. "I can endure it no longer." Mrs. Presty even bold Mrs. Presty was afraid to face him again. "He's fond of the child," she suggested; "let's send Kitty."
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