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Updated: May 21, 2025
"What will you tell Connie, then, Harry?" "O! what was it, Charlie? I've forgotten." Another laugh followed at Harry's expense now, and we were all very merry, when Dora, who sat opposite to the window, called out, clapping her hands "There's Niceboots again! There's Niceboots again!"
Niceboots, a shade of a different sort was on his. Surely I had said something wrong to cast a gloom on two young faces. I made haste to make amends. "We are just going to have some coffee," I said, "for my servants, I see, have managed to kindle a fire. Will you come and allow me to introduce you to Mrs. Walton?"
Below him the sea lay bluer than you could believe even when you saw it blue with a delicate yet deep silky blue, the exquisiteness of which was thrown up by the brilliant white lines of its lapping on the high coast, to the northward. We had just sat down, when Dora broke out with "I saw Niceboots at church. He did stare at you, papa, as if he had never heard a sermon before."
At length in our roaming, Wynnie and I approached a long low ridge of rock, rising towards the sea into which it ran. Crossing this, we came suddenly upon the painter whom Dora had called Niceboots, sitting with a small easel before him. We were right above him ere we knew. He had his back towards us, so that we saw at once what he was painting.
But there was an air of suppression, if not of sadness, about him, however, did not in the least interfere with the manliness of his countenance, or of its expression. "But," I said, "how am I to effect an introduction, seeing I do not yet know your name." I had had to keep a sharp look-out on myself lest I should call him Mr. Niceboots. He smiled very graciously and replied,
For she said the white lapping of the waves looked like spirits trying to get loose, and the white birds like foam that had broken its chains, and risen in triumph into the air." Here Mr. Niceboots, for as yet I did not know what else to call him, looked at Wynnie almost with a start. "How wonderfully that falls in with my fancy about the rock!" he said.
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