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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Please be careful, now; don't let my riding-skirt get hung in the stirrup," said Capitola, cautiously disengaging her drapery, rising in the saddle and giving the stranger her hand. In the act of jumping she suddenly stopped and looked down, exclaiming: "Good gracious! how very damp the ground is here, in the bottom of the valley!"
As her companion, the girl in the corded silk bonnet, drew up, several gallants from the group of young people near by hastened eagerly forward to her assistance. After doffing riding-skirt and loose jacket, she stood a moment upon the block, adjusting her attire, a robe of misty lavender sarcenet with a pink crepe scarf loosely knotted across the bosom.
Like lightning Ferry's sword was out, but he only gave it a deferential sweep. "Sir! better luck next time! Lieutenant Quinn, put the Captain in your front rank." Quinn hustled the captives "down a lane," as the fiddler might have said, of Ferry's scouts, mounted them on their own horses at the door, and hurried them away. Charlotte had vanished but was back again in hat and riding-skirt.
Rose wished she could give the difficult things love, devotion, and self-sacrifice; but she could not, or perhaps she had no opportunity. She was fond of her stepsisters, but her most conscious affection was the one she felt for her horse. She left him at the stable and, fastening up her riding-skirt, she walked slowly home. She had not far to go.
She drew her horse up to the front steps, and sat viciously regarding the city widow, as that lady shook out the folds of her riding-skirt, pulled the gauntlets to a tighter fit on her shapely hands, and kept her cornelian-headed riding-whip in a constant state of vibration, for the benefit of that evidently too admiring widower on the great bay horse.
All were surprised at Laura's sudden departure, but no one seemed especially grief- stricken. Dicky announced confidentially to Philip that Laura was a 'norful 'fraid-cat of frogs, and Jack ventured the opinion that Miss Laura hadn't 'boy' enough in her for camp-life. 'But where is Polly? asked Bell, looking round the table, as she pinned up her riding-skirt and sat down in her usual seat.
She was an accomplished rider, and very active, so she attempted to spring off on the grass by the roadside; but the band which fastened the end of her riding-skirt under her foot prevented her freeing herself quickly, and she was thrown, and dragged by her horse for several yards.
There was in it shy curiosity, but her dark eyes held, too, an emotion more profound. "Yes," she said. "It makes one breathe fast." Miss Rutherford had improved her time. The disorderly locks had been hairpinned into place. From her face all traces of the dried tears were washed. Pit clay no longer stained the riding-skirt.
She came forward a little farther, and sucked in a long, deep breath. "You dog of a Chinaman!" she said at last, and struck her riding-skirt. Fong Wu answered silently. With an imperative gesture, he pointed out the figure on the ironing-table. She sprang to her husband's side and bent over him. Presently she began to murmur to herself.
All eyes were turned to the slight woman's figure in the saddle, that sat so easily, that swayed the reins so lightly, and that seemed as it were, throned high above them in queenly superiority a figure wholly unconventional, clad in a riding-skirt and jacket of a deep soft violet hue, and wearing no hat to shield the bright hair from the fresh wind that waved its fair ripples to and fro caressingly and tossed a shining curl loose from the carelessly twisted braid.
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