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On the parapet was an interminable line of women most of them seated, but some few standing so as to see the better and almost all carrying silk parasols, which, with holiday-like gaiety, shimmered in the sunlight.
"And when I utter these sentiments, sir, I speak also for the Union of Precocious Magazine Children, which is represented here by Mary Sparks." Mary Sparks, a dark-haired miss with dancing eyes, bowed saucily. "Step out, Fritz Hackenschneider," said Helen, and flaxen-haired Fritz, radiantly holiday-like in his lustrously washed face and large, blue polka-dot tie, approached the mayor's chair.
In another moment he was in the midst of the whole party, who crowded round and welcomed him as if he had been a boy returning from his first half-year's schooling; and never did little school-boy look more holiday-like than he, with all the sunshine of that June day reflected, as it were, in his glittering eyes and glowing face, while Bustle escaping from Charles's caressing arm, danced round, wagging his tail in ecstasy, and claiming his share of the welcome.
On the parapet was an interminable line of women most of them seated, but some few standing so as to see the better and almost all carrying silk parasols, which, with holiday-like gaiety, shimmered in the sunlight.
Which was rather a pity, for, as Julia afterwards found out, it is often wisest to tell something of your doings, especially if you cannot tell all, and they are likely to come in for public notice. Julia bought her cakes, and went about the town feeling as holiday-like as the gayest peasant there, although she had no wonderful holiday head-dress of starched lace and gold plates.
On the parapet was an interminable line of women most of them seated, but some few standing so as to see the better and almost all carrying silk parasols, which, with holiday-like gaiety, shimmered in the sunlight.
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