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Valencia could obtain no further answer; and so the days ran on, every one becoming more and more intimate, till a certain afternoon, on which they were all to go and pic-nic, under Claude's pilotage, above the lake of Gwynnant.
Well, sure enough, we all set out together, the next morning; staid one day in the city; and, Thursday morning, we re-appeared with the dresses. Of course, Anne and I had taken the opportunity to get a fresh supply, besides the white batiste. We had a most delightful pic-nic.
'Ah, we have lost a staunch old Tory in Sir Abraham, said the lady, performing lamentation. What did it mean? Could design lodge in that empty-looking head with its crisp curls, button nose, and diminishing simper? Was this pic-nic to be made as terrible to the Countess by her putative father as the dinner had been by the great Mel?
The corner of the letter sticking up under Polly's neck attracted her strangely, and beginning with the familiar, 'Well, child, she talked of things interesting to Polly, and then exhibited the pic-nic dress. It was a lovely half-mourning; airy sorrows, gauzy griefs, you might imagine to constitute the wearer.
Man, without intellectual food, becomes a "lower animal." What intellectual man is without material food, even for part of a day, let those testify who have had the misfortune to go on a pic-nic, and discover that an essential element of diet had been forgotten.
Captain Twinely could not hesitate, he promised to go with her. In the back of his mind was a feeling that if he were of the party Maurice St. Clair could not attempt to communicate with the fugitive. "Maurice," said the Comtesse, "Maurice, are you ready? Captain Twinely is coming with us to the Skerries for a pic-nic. Won't that be nice? Come along quickly, we are starting."
Agnes spoke very little after the occurrence, knowing what state of mind Ruth was in, but she sang in a low voice some of her sister's favorite hymns, and in a little while the cloud rolled away, the sun came out, and the storm was all over. By tea-time Guy and Ruth were as if nothing unpleasant had happened, but there was no allusion made to the pic-nic.
After calling it into requisition, we set off homewards, reaching Besancon just as the moon made its appearance, a large silver disc above the purple hills; and the next day, good luck still following us, we had a drive and pic-nic in the opposite direction, this time with a less ambitious programme.
"Nora," said Daisy, "isn't it nice?" "It goes nicely now," said Nora. "But isn't it pleasant?" "Yes. It is a great deal pleasanter than in a little boat. This one is good and large." "Isn't the water pretty?" "I like the green grass better," said Nora. "O yes! but then I like this too. I like it very much. Nora, what did you mean by a pic-nic?" "A pic-nic?" said Nora.
And the dreadful sequel to the story the Countess could not tell: preferring ingeniously to throw a tragic veil over it. Miss Carrington went early to bed that night. The courage that mounteth with occasion was eminently the attribute of the Countess de Saldar. Besides, there was the pic-nic. The Countess had one dress she had not yet appeared in, and it was for the picnic she kept it.
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