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At which juncture Miss Josephine joined herself to the party, with one or two of her sort, while several gentlemen began to "fall in," behind Miss Kennedy. 'Did you have a good time at Merricksdale? Josephine asked. 'Not better than usual, Hazel answered. 'Danced, didn't you? I wanted mamma to have dancing to-night, and she wouldn't. She's so awfully slow! O Mr. Rollo, do you like dancing?
It was cool, but it was the coolness of a man intensely alive to the work in hand; the intonation towards Wych Hazel very gentle. 'I thought I had to walk home alone, she said simply. 'And I wanted the time to come. 'Please tell me the meaning of all this. You went to Merricksdale this evening last evening? 'Yes. Words did not come readily. Rollo added no more questions then.
Merrick's party passed into one of those strange, unearthly nights when the whole world seems resolved into moonlight and a midsummer night's dream. So while gas and hot-house flowers had it all their own way in the house at Merricksdale, over the rest of the outside world the wondrous moonlight reigned supreme. Not white and silvery, but as it were gilded and mellowed with the summer warmth.
'But I went safe, she began again, 'and reached the shadows on the other side before there came sounds upon the road once more, and the full stream of late people began to come rattling down from Merricksdale. 'Yes! Mr. Falkirk's word was rather breathless. 'At first, when I saw the first carriage, I thought I would speak and claim protection. But that held only men.
'That I broke my word? Mr. Falkirk, I began returning as you say, at a quarter past eleven. 'I never expected you to get off before that, my dear. Then what was the matter? The girl hesitated a moment, and then one of her witch looks flashed through in spite of everything. 'I fell into Charybdis, sir, that was all. 'I do not remember any such place between here and Merricksdale, said Mr.
Merrick lived quite in another quarter of the world; and in no case did the direct road from Merricksdale lead by here. If Rollo's senses had been alive before, which was but their ordinary and normal condition, he was now in the frame of mind of a Sioux on the war-path, and in corresponding alertness and acuteness of every faculty.
Maryland had not been gone long; the new arrivals were just pouring in; when a seat beside Wych Hazel was taken by Mr. Nightingale. 'You were at Merricksdale the other night? he said after the first compliments. 'Yes, for a while. 'I knew you would be. I was in despair that I could not get there; but engagements contretemps held us fast. I see now how much I lost.
'Thank you, sir. The next item seems to be a mild form of this: a little evening party at Mrs. Gen. Merrick's. And Mrs. Merrick hearing of your accident, sent a note to say that Miss Bird would convey me to Merricksdale, safe and in good order. 'Who is Miss Bird? 'Don't you remember, sir? She came to see me the same morning the Lasalle party came. 'There are a great many Birds, said Mr.
It was not a large company assembled for dinner, though everybody was expected in the evening. This was a different affair from Merricksdale; on old proud family name in the mistress of the mansion; old fashioned respectability and modern fashion commingled in the house and entertainment; the dinner party very strictly chosen. Beyond that fact, it was not perhaps remarkable. After dinner Dr.
In one moon she had walked home from Merricksdale, in another driven back from Mrs. Seaton's; and now in this But then her head went down upon the window-sill once more, nor was lifted again until the carriage was before the steps of Chickaree. 'Dane, said Primrose, as the two were parting in the dusky hall at home, 'she will never get over this. Never, never, never!
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