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Saturday afternoon was her holiday-time of the week, and she had not yet outgrown her schoolgirl love of eating apples as an accompaniment to an interesting book; but how aggravating to be reminded of her weakness just at this moment of all others! "What an inconvenient memory you have!" she said complainingly.
I had come home early from my club it was a sort of holiday-time with me just then for a few weeks intending to get some letters written which had been on my mind for some days, and I had sauntered into the library, a pleasant, fair-sized room lined with books, on the first-floor.
"I know what I would do?" said Hugh, decidedly. "I would tell Mr Tooke all about it, and ask him for half-a-crown." "Mr Tooke? Oh! I dare not." "I dare, in holiday-time. He is your master, next to being your father, while your father is so far away. You had better ask Mr Tooke, to be sure." "What go to Crofton, and speak to him? I really want not to be a coward, but I never could go and tell him."
A momentary pity came into Sir James's keen eyes, as he gazed into the girl's downcast face. "Don't be too disconsolate, Miss Tuppence," he said in a low voice. "Remember, holiday-time isn't always all playtime. One sometimes manages to put in some work as well." Something in his tone made Tuppence glance up sharply. He shook his head with a smile. "No, I shan't say any more.
"We can't go on talking of Utopia," he repeats, "in London.... Up in the mountains and holiday-time it was all right. We let ourselves go!" "I've been living in Utopia," I answer, tacitly adopting his tacit proposal to drop the lady out of the question. "At times," he says, with a queer laugh, "you've almost made me live there too." He reflects. "It doesn't do, you know. No!
At the time that Eustacia was listening to the rickmakers' conversation on Clym's return, Thomasin was climbing into a loft over her aunt's fuel-house, where the store-apples were kept, to search out the best and largest of them for the coming holiday-time.
It was holiday-time at "The Beeches," and almost all the pupils were absent. Miss Beaumont was, therefore, able to devote the ensuing fortnight to the delightful task of shopping.
Brock's letter has, apparently, not lost its influence yet. Midwinter is working again to-day, and is as anxious as ever for the holiday-time that he is to pass with his friend. "Two o'clock. Armadale here as usual; eager to know when Midwinter will be at his service. No definite answer to be given to the question yet, seeing that it all depends on Midwinter's capacity to continue at his desk.
Nay, I shall be unfit even for a May-day holiday-time; for these minuets, rigadoons, and French dances, that I have been practising, will make me but ill company for my milk-maid companions that are to be. To be sure I had better, as things stand, have learned to wash and scour, and brew and bake, and such like.
"No; you were right." "They were serious suspicions, I suppose?" "Certainly! I should not otherwise have devoted my holiday-time to clearing them up." "May I know what they were?" "I am sorry to disappoint you," he began. "But you would rather not answer my question," she interposed. "I would rather hear you tell me if you have made any other guess." "One more, Mr. Morris.
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