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There had never been a blither setting off from the Giant's Cairn. All the remaining guests were gathered to see them go. There was not a mote in the blue air between Outledge and the crest of Washington.
"Then you don't stay here?" "No; I only came this way to see what it was like. I've got a jolly place engaged for me, at Outledge." "Outledge? Why, we are going there!" "Are you? That's jolly!" repeated the boy, pausing a second for a fresher or politer word, but unable to supply a synonym. "I'm glad you think so," answered Leslie, with her genuine smile again.
She did not know how fast she was growing to be a sort of admiration herself among them, in their girls' fashion, or what she might do, if she chose, in the way of small, early belleship here at Outledge with such beginning, how she was "getting on," in short, as girls express it. And so, as Jeannie Hadden asked, "Where was the satisfaction?"
There were a few people at Outledge of the sort who, having once made up their minds that no good is ever to come out of Nazareth, see all things in the light of that conviction who would not allow the praise of any voluntary amendment to this tempering and new direction of Sin's vivacity. "It was time she was put down," they said, "and they were glad that it was done.
This morning there were only Imogen, and Etty, the youngest; a walking-party had gone off up the Cherry Mountain road, and Ginevra was upstairs, packing; for the Thoresbys had also suddenly decided to leave for Outledge on the morrow. Mrs. Thoresby declared, in confidence, to Mrs.
Just now, everything seemed likely to get crowded out with the young folks at Outledge but dresses, characters, and rehearsals. The swivel the earth turned on at this moment was the coming Tuesday evening and its performance. And the central axis of that, to nearly every individual interest, was what such particular individual was to "be."
A little picture I will give you farther on, a hint of something farther yet, and say good by. Some of them came back to Outledge, and stayed far into the still rich September. Delight and Leslie sat before the Green Cottage one morning, in the heart of a golden haze and a gorgeous bloom. All around the feet of the great hills lay the garlands of early-ripened autumn.
If it had not been for Leslie and Mrs. Linceford, he would have found himself in Outledge, what boys of his age are apt to find themselves in the world at large, a sort of odd or stray, not provided for anywhere in the general scheme of society.
But he's nice, ever so nice." "It's a case of Outledge, Leslie," Dakie Thayne said, going down the hill. "They treat those girls amphibiously!" "Well," returned Leslie, laughing, "I'm amphibious. I live in the town, and I can come out and not die on the Hill. I like it. I always thought that kind of animal had the nicest time." They met Alice Marchbanks with her cousin Maud, coming up.
There had never been a blither setting off from the Giant's Cairn. All the remaining guests were gathered to see them go. There was not a mote in the blue air between Outledge and the crest of Washington.
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