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The tennis-courts which I saw thronged about by eager girl-crowds, here, seven years ago, are now almost wholly abandoned to the lovers of the game, who are nearly always men.
There's a creek that reaches up in the woods for miles; and they have canoes and skating and a swimming-hole; and there are tennis-courts everywhere; and it's only eleven miles from the city. I say we just camp here, and not bother about going on to the other place. I'm satisfied. If that house is big enough, it's just the thing." "But have you been to the college?" "No, but I asked about it.
"That will be enough!" cried Kitty, as the last of a dozen balls sailed toward the distant stables. The tennis-courts were sunken and round them ran a parapet of lawn, crisp and green, with marble benches opposite the posts, generally used as judges' stands. Upon one of these Kitty sat down and began to fan herself. Thomas walked over and sat down beside her.
They led the way round by the river path and the tennis-courts with a sublime disregard for the eye of the multitude, leaving Dora and Arthur to follow at such speed as their discretion might dictate. Before they had left the tennis-lawn Arthur plunged. It may have been the desperation of diffidence, or perhaps that the new grey suit and the unique tie lent him confidence.
"John never did that," she said, "at least, not without asking. And even then, not quite like that." She walked on slowly, then stopped and exclaimed: "I wonder if he ever did that to Mary Travers." And her last reflection was: "Poor boy. He must be oh, dear me!" When Charlie reached the tennis-courts, he was, considering the moving scene through which he had passed, wonderfully calm.
Farrell had spoken was certainly an ideal work-shop, the tennis-courts made those at the Newport Casino look like a ploughed field, and the swimming-pool, guarded by white pillars and overhung with grape-vines, was a cool and refreshing picture. As, hot and perspiring, I trudged back through Fairharbor, the memory of these haunted me. That they also tempted me, it is impossible to deny.
"I don't know, unless on the lawn," ventured Jess. "Whew! It would spoil the tennis-courts." "Well, I suppose she could hire a field. It would be ripping fun to learn to milk." "Don't flatter yourself you'd have the chance. The seniors get all that kind of fun, and we poor intermediates only get the spade work.
I had visions of forests and wilds and tumbling mountain streams and a general air of primevalism, and I am surprised to see this fine hotel with piazzas, and croquet-grounds, and tennis-courts, and gravelled walks, and babies in their carriages, and elderly ladies carrying sun-shades." "But it seems to me that there is a forest behind it," said Mr. Archibald.
"Turn around, brother, and let's go back past there again." Allison turned around, and drove slowly by the college grounds again. "There are tennis-courts at the back," said Leslie, "and that looks like a gym over there. Do you suppose that's the athletic field over at the back?"
France seems to have been the original home of tennis, which in the thirteenth century was played in unenclosed spaces; but in the fourteenth it migrated to the towns, and walls enclosed the motions of the ball. In Paris alone there were said to be eighteen hundred tennis-courts.
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