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The girl, with a strong, self-reliant jump, a jump that had an echo of tennis and golf and horseback, scrambled up and forward, Cary taking his alert eyes a moment from his sailing, to watch her to safety, I thought her pretty as a picture as she stood swaying with one arm around the mast, in her white shirt-waist and dark dress, her head bare, and brown, untidy hair blowing across the fresh color of her face, and into her clear hazel eyes.
I came down on the chance that the fine weather might have tempted you over to the Golf Club. As it is, I shall return." "I am awfully sorry," Hamel said. "Can't I go out of sight somewhere?" Mr. Fentolin sighed. "I will not ask your pardon for my absurd humours," he continued, a little sadly. "Their existence, however, I cannot deny. I will wait."
I don't see where the fascination comes in. I called the other day on a man who was once in the Cabinet. He is rich and famous, and can have anything or do anything he likes, but he spends most of his time playing golf.
Women may gain in health by attempting to play golf, but they do so at the expense of shattered masculine nerves and morals. When our board of management decided to permit the ladies to have free use of the course at all times except when tournaments are in progress, I resigned as director, but what good did it do? A woman never is so tenacious of her rights as when she is in the wrong.
Roses nodded from every bush, but the pupils of Oakdale's two High Schools were far too busy to think about the beauty of the weather. Golf, tennis, baseball and other outdoor sports were sternly put aside, and the usual season of "cramming" set in. Young faces wore an almost tragic expression, and back lessons were reviewed with desperate zeal.
Far away to the distant south shore, and up and down the river we can survey a stretch of eighty or ninety miles. We stand in the midst of a sea of mountains and look landward across deep valleys in all directions with the ranges rising tier on tier beyond. Among diversions for men golf, in spite of a certain reaction, has still the chief place. The club house is on the west shore of the bay.
She was passing through a wicket that protects the footpath across the golf links, when she heard Stampa growl: "Morgen früh!" "Ja!" snapped Bower. She smiled to herself at the thought that things were going to happen to-morrow. She was right. But she had not yet done with the present day.
The office door was found locked, and on its being broken open the clothes of the unfortunate gentleman were found in a heap on the floor, together with an umbrella, a walking stick, a golf club, and, curiously enough, a feather brush, such as housemaids use for dusting. Of his body, however, there was no trace. The police are stated to have a clew." If they have, they have kept it to themselves.
"A long stride suits a man's anatomy well enough; it does not suit a woman's she feels every stride she takes, I'll warrant her." "If she plays golf " "My dear Ethel, there is no need for her to play golf. It is a man's game and was played for centuries by men only.
Horseback-riding and bicycling are, of course, forbidden, as are also golf, tennis, and dancing. Exercise. Exercise in the open air should be taken every day, when the weather is suitable, and walking is the best form of exercise. The amount will be regulated to some extent by what the woman has been accustomed to taking, and it should always stop short of fatigue.
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