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The afternoon passed in looking over accounts, or in reading and laughing at the discussions and opinions of Colonel Stone and Major Noah, as set forth in the well-known papers, the Morning Courier and Commercial Gazette, while the evening of each day was filled up by an impromptu of some kind, a dance, or a merry chat.
Quite casually I happened upon a girl clambering over a hedge, and her dress had caught in a bramble, and the chat was quite impromptu and most idyllic. I remember she had three or four wood anemones in her hand "wind stars" she called them, and I thought it a pretty name. And we talked of this and that, with a light in our eyes, as young folks will. I quite forgot I was a Doomed Man.
What sound, distant and far away, had been borne to her on the wind of the dawn? Again the giant battering-ram stove at the door and the middle bolt crashed. The flimsy impromptu barricade toppled, then swayed back into place and a shuddering sigh went up from the handful of white-faced men. One more drive, and the end would come.
Nina particularly liked these informal receptions, where the company was composed, for the most part, of really interesting, agreeable people. There was always music, generally by amateur performers; occasionally there was some other form of impromptu entertainment, an impersonation or a recitation.
After tea and a lovely tea it was, although, as Kate remarked to me later, there was no ham we had an impromptu concert. Mr. Lonsdale played the violin; Mrs. Hopkins, who sang, was a graduate of a musical conservatory; Mr.
An unforeseen consequence of thus suppressing the sailor's impromptu liaisons was an alarming increase in the number of desertions. On shore love laughs at locksmiths; on shipboard it derided the boatswain's mate.
"I know; but he was a queer old codger, and he took a great fancy to you when he saw you. Don't you remember? Anyhow, the deed is done." "And it's ours? a whole automobile?" "That's what they say and it's a three-thousand-dollar car." "Oh, Herbert!" "And to think how we 've wanted an automobile!" she cried, when the impromptu omelet in her lap had been banished into oblivion.
"Jolly spree, wasn't it?" said Parson, when it was all over, fanning himself with a copybook and readjusting his collar. "Stunning!" said Telson; "never thought they'd stand it so long. No end of a speech, that of yours!" "Yes," said Parson, complacently; "most of it impromptu, too! Managed to spin it out, I fancy!" "Rather," said King, admiringly.
Field's dresses were laid under contribution, and Field, Russell, and Riley gave an impromptu play. And it was upon this scene that Mrs. Field, after a continuous ringing of the door-bell and nearly battering down the door, appeared at seven o'clock the next morning! It was fortunate that Eugene Field had a patient wife; she needed every ounce of patience that she could command.
Could not Miss Elizabeth have guessed pshaw! what an ass he was, how was she to know? that a motley and miscellaneous collection of people was his distinct aversion! A rustic Olla podrida, an Omnium-gatherum was not to his taste. It was his last evening too, and he would have to make himself pleasant to strangers. He knew what these impromptu garden-parties meant.
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