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The first half of the Battle of the Bull-dogs was as peaceful as any ordinary pic-nic, and promised to the general company as calm a conclusion. If it be a distinct point of wisdom to hug the hour that is, then does dinner amount to a highly intellectual invitation to man, for it furnishes the occasion; and Britons are the wisest of their race, for more than all others they take advantage of it.
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It was musical, in as much as a band had been fetched up to play on the rocks, while the company filled the house and balcony, and an occasional song or duet, which ladies asked for 'just to see how they would sound there, kept up the delusion. By what rule it was a pic-nic it might be difficult to discover, except that it had been so styled.
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.
Several of his successors in office, however, as well as various ether residents of York, used occasionally to resort to it as a kind of camping ground in the summer time, and it soon came into vogue for pic-nic excursions.
Has your Ladyship yet been to the Castle of Nassau?" "We have not. The expedition has been one of those plans often arranged and never executed." "You should go. The ruin is one of the finest in Germany. An expedition to Nassau Castle would be a capital foundation for a pic-nic. Conceive a beautiful valley, discovered by a knight, in the middle ages, following the track of a stag. How romantic!
I like the description of your PIC-NIC; where I take it for granted, that your cards are only to break the formality of a circle, and your SYMPOSION intended more to promote conversation than drinking. Such an AMICABLE COLLISION, as Lord Shaftesbury very prettily calls it, rubs off and smooths those rough corners which mere nature has given to the smoothest of us.
"Dinner?" said Nora; "do people eat dinner when they go to a pic-nic?" "Why yes. What do you think they do?" "I thought it was just a pic-nic." "What is that?" said Daisy curiously. But just then there was a stir; the ladies and gentlemen were getting into the boat, and the children had to be ready for their turn. It came; and Mr.
"I'll tell you what I should have I should have a party." "A party!" "Yes, that is what I should have." "I never thought of that. Who would you ask, Nora? I thought of a pic-nic; and of a great journey to Schroeder's Mountain; that would be nice; to spend the whole day, you know." "Yes, that would be nice: but I should have a party. O there are plenty to have. There is Kitty Marsden."
Graeme smiled. Mrs Grove's generally descriptive term hardly indicated the manifold virtues of their friend; but, before she could say so, Mrs Grove continued. "We must think of some way of doing her honour. We must get up a little fete a pic-nic or something. Will she stay here or at Mr Birnie's. She is a friend of his, I suppose, as Rose stopped him in the street to tell him she is coming.
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