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If Miss Carter was young, Belle was younger still. The days went by. Hong served them delicious meals. Timmy was angelic. They unearthed halma, puzzles, fortune-telling cards. The rain fell steadily; the eaves dripped; the paths were sheets of water. "It certainly gets on your nerves doesn't it?" said Miss Carter, when the darkness came on Thursday night.
About now, instead of being on his way to a place where they probably ran a Halma team instead of a cricket eleven, and played hunt-the-slipper in winter, he would be on the point of arriving at Wrykyn. And as captain of cricket, at that. Which was the bitter part of it. He had never been in command.
"Well, then, he's lost," Alice said, making the ugly face that means you are going to blub in half a minute. Every one had sprung to their feet. Even Noël and H.O. saw at once what a doddering game Halma is, and Dora and Dicky, whatever their faults, care more for Pincher than for boxes and screws. Because Pincher is our fox-terrier.
To play halma with zest all the evening with a parent who must always win, to read the papers to him by the hour, not while he listened, but while he slept Fay scorned these humble efforts of Magdalen's.
"Quite so; but that's not exactly a reason why you should play halma with him. I've a respect for him also, if what you say is true, but he is not in our class, as he himself would acknowledge, and it's not the thing for you to be seen talking to him. There are certain restrictions which we must all observe." "Excuse me I don't observe them. I am Mariquita Saville.
Gordon to teach me the spirit of acquiescence, and one of those distracting games bésique or halma, or some of the other infernal pastimes that heaven decrees for recalcitrant spirits in need of crushing discipline." "I think I see you!" Algitha exclaimed with a dispirited laugh. "It will be a trial," Hadria admitted; "but it is said that suffering strengthens the character.
"Yours very lovingest, The next morning, after breakfast, when grandma was up and dressed, with her sprained foot resting on a cushioned chair in front of her, Cricket presented herself at the door. "I've come to be your legger, grandma," she announced, "and I'll read to you, or amuse you, or play dominos or halma with you, or anything you like. Or we might play go-bang. That's very interesting."
Mr Schute is very lonely; no one speaks to him, and his eyes are so weak that he can't amuse himself by reading. He is a very interesting old man, and I assure you his `h's' are above reproach. Will you have a game of halma with him this afternoon instead of me, and so set me free from my promise?" Haughty Hector's stare of amazement was a sight to behold.
As it was she lay still, reading, sometimes writing a letter, or copying something for Lydia, always eager for a game of "Halma" or "Parchesi," a greater part of the time out of pain, and for a certain part of the twenty-four hours tortured by the slow-creeping agonies that waited for her like beasts in the darkness of every night.
She would go walks with them in the woods, help them to arrange their various collections of butterflies, foreign stamps, and picture post cards, and play endless games of draughts, halma, or bagatelle. "You slave after those boys as if you were their nursery governess!" remarked Lilias one day, just a little nettled that Clifford ran instinctively to Carmel for sympathy instead of to his sister.
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