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Seldom was she included in it, save when her mother, nodding to some one she knew, would turn to say: "Daughter, there is Mrs. Jones-Lloyd." What did she care about Mrs. Jones-Lloyd? What did she care about any of the people about them, aimless, pleasure-hunting drifters like themselves.
Invite all the old friends, and as many new ones as you choose; but have it understood that they are to come as intelligent men and women, not as pleasure-hunting beaux and belles; give them conversation instead of gossip; less food for the body and more for the mind; the healthy stimulus of the nobler pleasures they can command, instead of the harmful excitements of present dissipation.
Two days later the Marmions left London for Copenhagen, whence they intended to take a trip among the Baltic Islands, now looking their brightest and prettiest, then up along the Norwegian Fiords, just before the tourist rush began, and finally across from Trondjem to Iceland. They were both excellent sailors, and both disliked crowds, especially when the said crowds were pleasure-hunting.
'I did not mean it, she answered; 'I have not a word to say against it. It is quite right, and I am sure I don't wish to do otherwise. 'Only it is the first drawback in our real day-dream. 'Just so, and that is all, said Amy; 'I am glad you feel the same, not that I want you to change your mind. 'Don't you remember our resolution against mere pleasure-hunting?
Amy was known to have always desired to see Switzerland; it occurred to Guy that it would be a capital opportunity of taking Arnaud to see the relations he had been talking for the last twenty years of visiting, and so they acquiesced; for as Guy said, when they talked it over together, it did not seem to him to come under the denomination of pleasure-hunting, since they had not devised it for themselves; they had no house to go to; they should do Arnaud a service, and perhaps they should meet Philip.
Madame Surville was charmed with its prettiness and prattle, charmed still more when I rebuked the poor infant for calling me 'Maman, and said, 'Thy real mother is here. Freed from my trouble, I returned to the kind German roof I had quitted, and shortly after became the wife of Ludovico Cicogna. "My punishment soon began. His was a light, fickle, pleasure-hunting nature.
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