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He looked at all the carriages along the drive of the Bois de Boulogne, the high life was already moving toward the Lake. In calèches, old ladies in mourning appeared with pale nuns, and old men with red decorations stretched out under lap-robes.
It seemed an eternity from the time Jim's foot step echoed on the little porch until he pushed the door open and hastily entered, his arms piled with lap-robes, coats and the dress-suit case in his hand. He walked with quick, firm step, threw the coats and robes on the couch and placed the suit-case at its head.
"There, where they are fighting? Oh, I couldn't. I I can't. It would be all over before we got there as Vacca says." "Sure," repeated young Vacca. "Drive to Hooven's," commanded Hilma. "If you won't, I'll walk there." She threw off the lap-robes, preparing to descend. "And you," she exclaimed, turning to Mrs. Derrick, "how CAN you when Harran and your husband may be may are in danger."
Sawed-Off Wilmott and the young Lochinvar from Glenoro came regularly, on alternate evenings, to see Ella Anne Long, and never found ropes tied across the gate, nor whips nor lap-robes missing, as in Tim's unregenerate days. Even Miss Weir testified that sometimes he would not do anything particularly outrageous in school for a week at a time.
When the doctor went downstairs again, a little girl met him, saying, "Miss Jane says you may sit in the parlor, or out on the meranda, till supper is ready." "How pleasant! Won't you come and sit with me?" Doctor Carey replied. "I must put the the lap-robes on the tables to everybody's plate, and the knives and forks and poons. Nen I'll come," she answered.
The school-teacher sat beside her on the seat, and Cordelia and the girls were snuggled down in hay upon the bottom of the sled, with comforters for lap-robes. The little log store was but two miles distant, and the party were not long in reaching it. It stood upon a steep bluff on the opposite shore.
They said no more except to warn Luke of a bad piece of road about two miles on. Sure enough, in its very middle crack! we broke down. "De kingbolt done gone clean in two!" said Luke, and Robelia repeated the news explosively. "We'll leave the coach," I announced. "Fold the lap-robes on the backs of the two horses, for Rebecca and me. You-all can walk beside us."
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