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Updated: June 27, 2025
GOOD! It was absolutely painful to witness the virtue of those children for the rest of the day. It was holiday-time, and Miss Marsh was away, but not once did the sound of quarrelling, or laughing, or crying fly down to the lower regions.
Even such results as might be looked for on Prince von Hammerfeldt's theory of the meaning of freedom were in my case arrested and postponed by a very serious illness which attacked me on the threshold of my eleventh year. We had gone to Schloss Artenberg, according to our custom in the summer; it was holiday-time; Krak was away, the talked-of tutor had not arrived.
To Jane Coop, rides in the desert in Egypt were just as much a part of the day's programme as rides on donkeys at holiday-time had been in Margate, before interfering people began to make a fuss about the rider's weight.
"Now, now, Gerty!" said her father; but all the same he rather liked to see his daughter get on her high horse, for she talked with spirit, and it amused him. "You must remember that Macleod looks on this as a holiday-time, and perhaps he may be a little lax in his regulations.
"'My name, sir, I replied, 'is Hall Arthur Hall, and I am one of the boys from Ascot House. "'But how is it you are here I thought it was holiday-time? "'So it is, sir; but my friends are away on the Continent, and I am staying at the school through the holidays. "How do you like it? "'Not at all; I am as lonely and miserable as a rat that has lost its hole.
It was holiday-time, and liberties were taken such as were not permissible, when they might have afforded a bad precedent to the boarders.
He had promised to go and shoot in Norfolk, and had half undertaken to be up in London with Herriot, working. Though it was holiday-time, still there was plenty of work for him to do, various heavy cases to get up, and papers to be read, if only he could settle himself down to the doing of it. But the scenes down in Scotland had been of a nature to make him unfit for steady labour.
They are in no need of food and drink." But the girls will not accept their defeat. "What?" they continue calling to the invisible Dutch crew; "Are you so lazy as to have gone already to bed? Is it not holiday-time for you, too?" "They lie fast in their lairs," jest the Norwegians; "like dragons they guard their treasure!" "Halloo, sea-folk!" persist the girls; "Do you not wish for golden wine?
Such phrases as "And in the holiday-time we can discuss," "When you are here in the summer vacation," "I shall look forward to hearing your descriptions," could not be misunderstood, but for the moment the big gain outweighed the loss, and Darsie smiled on unperturbed.
But in this quiet country place at the Manor we hear so little of what is going on. I can't help being so ignorant about all these things." "You are all the happier, perhaps," said the lad sadly. "Oh, I don't know," said Waller. "I am afraid I don't know much about what's going on. I am fond of being out here in the woods. It is holiday-time now my father's out.
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