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He never made any effort to see her. On one occasion when she came unexpectedly upon him and Olga, shrimping along the shore, she was surprised that he did not second the child's eager proposal that she should join them. He actually seemed too keen upon the job in hand to pay her much attention.
They were to eat in a room, as the outer dining-halls were all full. Roland suddenly caught sight of some shrimping nets hanging against the wall. "Ah! ha!" cried he, "you catch prawns here?" "Yes," replied Beausire. "Indeed it is the place on all the coast where most are taken." "First-rate! Suppose we try to catch some after breakfast."
Queenie was beginning to discover the fact that dolls were not, perhaps, the highest joys of life. Going out shrimping with Ned! Theo started. Then things were hopeless indeed. There would be no evening preparation. Perhaps even Geoff had changed his mind, and would refuse to say he was sorry. 'I must take you home now, at once, deary. Come! I have to go and see old Goody Dempster before tea.
"I am seriously thinking of going shrimping. I suppose there are shrimps here, and I should love to tuck up my skirts and carry a big net, like somebody's picture." "Perhaps," Cecil suggested, "you would like to try the golf links. I believe there are some quite decent ones not far away." The Princess shook her head. "No!" she answered. "Golf is too civilized a game.
Then the old man drove in again to his shrimping, and our party stopped to examine the jelly-fish, like glass paper-weights, which were left upon the sand, while Mr Inglis pointed out two or three which had been left by the morning tide, and were now dried up to a thin, filmy skin. There was plenty to see.
Abram Sclanders' unhappy half-witted son haunted this boat-house, it seemed, storing his shrimping nets there, any other things as well, a venerable magpie's hoard of scraps and lumber; using it as a run-hole, too, when the other lads hunted and tormented him according to their healthy, brutal youthful way. A regular joss-house, he'd made of it.
But he didn't like paddling or shrimping or sailing or farmyard life. He wanted a velvet lawn, a cedar, a rose garden, lavender, a sun dial, iced lemonade and solitude. Or he wanted his own cool apartment, with drawn sunblinds, vases full of flowers, his immense writing table, and a deserted Paris around him. Women always did to you as they wanted to be done by.
In the autumn, when the leaves were falling in the wooded grounds of Fellside, the young ladies were sent, still under guardianship of governesses and footmen, to some quiet seaside resort between Alnwick and Edinburgh, where Mary lived the wild free life she loved, roaming about the beach, boating, shrimping, seaweed-gathering, making hard work for the governesses and footmen who had been sent in charge of her.
After the farm this crisp, slangy, eager talk, this cool, clean, off-hand refinement, was queer at first, and then so natural that what he had come from became suddenly remote. The names of the two little ones seemed to be Sabina and Freda; of the eldest, Stella. Presently the one called Sabina turned to him and said: "I say, will you come shrimping with us? it's awful fun!"
Anybody with an ounce of gumption might have seen he'd be a short-wit from the first. I took him over; but that 'ud the opposite way about, as he wanted to go shrimping back of the Bar so he said." Jennifer paused as in earnest thought. "No, not a soul to merit your attention, to-day, sir, that I can call to mind.
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