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There had been in her always something enigmatic. They played leap-frog in the water, and the bathe was as uproarious as on the previous day. Sally mothered them all, keeping a watchful eye on them, and calling to them when they went out too far. She swam staidly backwards and forwards while the others got up to their larks, and now and then turned on her back to float.
You'd find that much duller, I should think. He laughed a little. 'Where did you learn this wisdom? 'I've had experience, she said staidly. 'Yes, you'd find it duller. 'Perhaps you're right. But then, you might come to buy the bacon. I should look forward to that.
And only when the lamp was lit in the large drawing-room up-stairs, and Bourkin and Ivan Ivanich, dressed in silk dressing-gowns and warm slippers, lounged in chairs, and Aliokhin himself, washed and brushed, in a new frock coat, paced up and down evidently delighting in the warmth and cleanliness and dry clothes and slippers, and pretty Pelagueya, noiselessly tripping over the carpet and smiling sweetly, brought in tea and jam on a tray, only then did Ivan Ivanich begin his story, and it was as though he was being listened to not only by Bourkin and Aliokhin, but also by the old and young ladies and the officer who looked down so staidly and tranquilly from the golden frames.
I cried, "a Strelley of Upcote, a gentleman and an old Catholic, to clown it in a fair! Never in the world!" Virginia, walking staidly beside me, considered this outburst in silence before she delivered herself. "You speak," she then said, "as I would have you speak, but not at all as you have decided to speak.
We elders kept together staidly, as became the gravity of our years; but the young people save two of them frolicked on ahead and took again with a will to singing noëls; and from afar we heard through the night-stillness, sweetly, other home-going companies singing these glad Christmas songs.
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