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There's a call for the 'Lock a-hoy! And here they come, girls in flannels and sailor hats, rowing for their lives, and men lolling on the cushions with fans and parasols." The husband went to open the gates for one of those water-parties which are to be seen nowhere but on the Thames, and Mrs. Rowles set off to walk to Littlebourne station.
In a wine country the vendange is certainly the most exciting and merriest season of the year it is a succession of delightful fêtes in the open air, of repasts amongst the vines and under the shade of the peach-trees, riding-parties in the forest, whose echoes are awakened by the melancholy notes of the horn, water-parties on the lakes, dances in the field and round the wine-press, &c.
Seine, water-parties on the; frozen over. Seven Years' War, the. Severity of the winter of 1788-'89 much felt in France. Seville, the Barber of, the play of. Séze, M. de. Sieyès, Abbé. Simolin, M. Simon M., and the young king. Sir Edward Hughes. Sledging-parties. Small-pox caught by Louis XV.; caught by Madame Adelaide.
He could not be said to actually avoid her, but certainly since that afternoon in the drawing-room, they had never been for five seconds alone. Mr. Stuart, senior, had agreed, with almost feverish eagerness, to the proposed change. Life had been very pleasant in Cheshire, with picnics, water-parties down the Dee, drives to show-places, lawn billiards, and croquet, but a month of it was enough.
Edward had already begun to pour out his delight at the beautiful scenery, the broad river, the hills, the rocks, the vineyard, the old castles, the water-parties, and the jubilee at the grape-gathering, the wine-pressing, etc., in all of which, in the innocence of his heart, he was only exuberating in the anticipation of the impression which these scenes were to make on the fresh spirit of Ottilie.
The wrong-doers feared him; but they were few. By the rest of the population, including his soldiers, he was beloved, respected, not a little envied. For a bachelor he mingled with zest in the small social amusements of Garland Town, the capital of the Islands. He shone at picnics and water-parties. He played a fair hand at whist.
He no longer showed any indifference to his evening engagements; to be with her was the one wish of his life; where she went, he went to ball, opera, soiree, concert, fete, to dinners at Richmond, to water-parties; whoever saw the beautiful Lady Amelie, saw her last victim with her.
At length just when London begins to grow most pleasant when flirtations become tender, and water-parties numerous when birds sing in the groves of Richmond, and whitebait refresh the statesman by the shores of Greenwich, Maltravers abruptly fled from the gay metropolis, and arrived, one lovely evening in July, at his own ivy-grown porch of Burleigh. What a soft, fresh, delicious evening it was!
"Please do not speak in such an apologetic tone," replied Malcolm. "If you knew how my soul abhors picnics and water-parties! It is really too delightful to know that I may enjoy your society in peace for three whole days. By the bye, where is the Colonel?" "Oh, Alick has gone to Henley to see an old chum of his, but he will be back in good time for dinner. Is it not lovely down here, Mr. Herrick?
At length just when London begins to grow most pleasant when flirtations become tender, and water-parties numerous when birds sing in the groves of Richmond, and whitebait refresh the statesman by the shores of Greenwich, Maltravers abruptly fled from the gay metropolis, and arrived, one lovely evening in July, at his own ivy-grown porch of Burleigh. What a soft, fresh, delicious evening it was!
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