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Football and cricket were of course reserved for half-holidays, and played in a neighbouring field rented by the Doctor, and in the playground he restricted them to "chevy," which he considered, rightly enough, both gave them abundant exercise and kept them out of mischief.
If you know so much about fairy things, Nance, why don't you manage to get us nice fine days for our half-holidays? The old woman smiled. 'It's a fine day for me when I see your faces, Master Archie, she replied, 'and that you know well enough. But to be sure the weather has been contrary the last week or two. Come in, come in, missie dear there's some of my little cakes all ready.
Caryll quite faded away, and she talked happily to her little niece of plans for other half-holidays. It would be nice sometimes, she said, to invite the Moor Edge party to Caryll for a change, 'though, as she added with a smile, 'they all say they don't care for anything there half as much as for running wild on their dear moor. 'The moor is nice, isn't it, auntie? said Rosamond.
“It hardly matters what age they are,” lamented Marcy, pessimistically. “There’s bound to be a dormitory disorder once in so often.” “What do you do in that case?” asked Irving. “Jump hard on some one,” answered Wythe. “Try to get the leader of it, but if you can’t get him, get somebody. Report him,—give him three sheets.” “That means writing Latin lines for three hours on half-holidays?”
At home the boy always drew and painted for pleasure, as well as at school during the half-holidays. Some water-colors made during a holiday trip in Brittany in 1890 decided his father to allow him to follow art as a career. He entered Julian's studio, with Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury as professors in 1891, and studied from the nude during the five following winters.
Geoffrey, four years the senior, a member of "Pop," and an athlete of many colours, found himself one day the object of an almost idolatrous worship on the part of a skinny little being, discreditably clever at Latin verses, and given over to the degrading habit of solitary piano practicing on half-holidays.
Put on your duds and come on he sent me for you." Max settled himself more reposefully than ever among his pillows. "Go 'way," he commanded. "My half-holidays are not for work." But Sally sprang to her feet, seeing which Jarvis got promptly to his. "Sorry we haven't blanket tobogganing suits, Bob," said Jarvis, "but we can try it in derby hats and kid gloves. I'm ready."
There was an old piano in the reception-room which the girls were allowed to use for their amusement on half-holidays, and she often went there; but even when she practised, she moved her fingers mechanically, her mind busy with vivid scenes and moving dramatic incidents; so that her beloved music was gradually converted from an object in itself into an aid to thought.
Ogilvie, proved almost uniformly to be against her whenever there was a difference of opinion, she had sense enough to perceive that she could still learn something at home. Moreover, after one or two of these references, Mr. Ogilvie offered to look over her Latin and Greek exercises, and hear her construe on his Saturday half-holidays, declaring that it would be quite a refreshment.
Here she comes down stairs, like a thunderbolt. Lottie, my dear girl, I'm sure it's going to be fine: better run out and look up those Wingfield boys, I think." So the trio spent long half-holidays rambling in the fields; and on these occasions Lottie might be met, an immense distance from home, in the shabbiest clothes and wearing a red cap of Robin's tossed carelessly on her dark hair.
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