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Updated: June 11, 2025
He needed her as much as ever and loved her as devotedly and honourably.... The boat was turned back at the weir and, half an hour later, reached the Club wharf. "I want to go straight home without changing, Pat; do you mind? I'll drop you at the Gymkhana if you don't want to get home so early," said Dearman, as he helped his wife out. "Won't you change and have a drink first, John?" she replied.
The afternoon was taken up by a sort of gymkhana, when a happy holiday crowd assembled to see the tilting at the ring, the lemon-cutting, and the tug-of-war. At this entertainment Colonel Baden-Powell was thoroughly in his element, chatting to everyone and dispensing tea from a travelling waggon.
Her rippling laughter and cheerful repartees were to be heard where young people were assembled at the Gymkhana, or elsewhere; but this Sophy wore another aspect when she sat on duty in her aunt's bedroom, whiling away restlessness and want of sleep with reading and talk, and even cards. Many a time the dawn was breaking before she was at liberty to go to bed.
In the afternoon the British held athletic sports, an impromptu military tournament, and a gymkhana, all of which caused much merriment and diversion, and the Boers profited by the cessation of the shell fire to shovel away at their trenches. In the evening there were Christmas dinners in our camp roast beef, plum pudding, a quart of beer for everyone, and various smoking concerts afterwards.
Smith not to be." Ida smiled, well pleased at the flattery, although, as a matter of fact, no one had yet asked her to nominate him. "I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to do," answered Noreen. "I've never been to a gymkhana in India. I haven't seen or ridden in any, except at Hurlingham and Ranelagh." Charlesworth made a mental note of this.
She endured the strain as long as she could; then inventing an excuse, she left him; though, to her surprise, it hurt her more than she could have believed a week ago. That afternoon, during the progress of a hybrid gymkhana, ranging from steeplechasing to obstacle races for men and natives, the first whisper of current gossip reached Lenox's ears.
Now the sun has set, and every one hastily puts on overcoats or wraps before driving home, for the air becomes suddenly cold, and neglect of these precautions will probably result in fever. Many adjourn to the gymkhana club before returning home.
'I've just been looking for something that you would like, he said, 'but it isn't much good hunting about alone. I see five times as much when we go together. He and his pony barred the way; he had an air of leisure and of felicity; one would think we had met at an afternoon party. 'We are on our way, I explained, 'to the gymkhana. Miss Harris is in one of the events.
Are they parted, then expect Someone sailing will be wrecked." On the night after the Gymkhana the great little world of Lahore was again disporting itself, with unabated vigour, in the pillared ballroom of the Lawrence Hall.
Sophy had a difficult part to act in fact no less than three separate roles: one with her aunt, one with Herr Krauss, and a third in public. Those who saw Miss Leigh dancing and playing tennis at the Gymkhana, little guessed how she spent the remainder of the day, soothing and interesting a fretful invalid, or sitting up half the night on duty and on guard.
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