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The week-end was torment to him: the memory of the camp, the knowledge of the life he led there; even the sight of his own legs in that abhorrent khaki. He felt as if the hideous cloth went into his blood and made it gritty and dirty. Then Winifred so ready to serve the soldier, when she repudiated the man. And this made the grit worse between his teeth.
And since leaving college what has he done?" "I've had him in my office." "Joe, answer my question. I know you've had him in your office. But what has he done? Has he earned his salary?" "I'm afraid he hasn't, Alden. Somehow golf and tennis and week-end parties and yachting and big-game hunting in Alaska and tarpon fishing in Florida sort of interfere with business."
Blake who was spending the week-end somewhere else, he confided his difficulties to Lady Jane whom he felt to be sympathetic. "The house is so big," he complained. "Mrs.
He thanked her suitably on her return, but one discordant, trifling incident coalesced with another, the tepid bath with the whiskey demonstration, to give him a sense of angular discomfort. In a few hours he seemed to spend a month's nervous energy in battling for things that were not worth winning. The whole week-end would be a failure. . . .
No man ought ever to take me seriously until I've told him every day for a year that I love him. Maybe two years." "Just tell me once " he began "Don't," she said, "please. Now you confess." "Well, Barbs," he said, "this week-end is a sort of good-by. I'm in very deep, and I'm going to a new place to live a new life." "Well!" she exclaimed, "you're not running away?"
"I am always in a bad temper on Mondays, so I shall be able to make the most of my chance." She was silent for a moment considering the prospect, then was struck with a sudden thought. "But now and then I do have a nice week-end, and then I shouldn't want to grumble at all. I suppose I could change the day?" There was a ring of triumph in Claire's laugh. "Not you!
He played football in the autumn, drank high-balls in the winter, and rowed in the spring. Samuel despised all those who were merely sportsmen without being gentlemen or merely gentlemen without being sportsmen. He live in New York and often brought home several of his friends for the week-end.
The motor is still the rich man's pleasure, as the week-end is his holiday; and it will be long before the one will be the poor man's use, or the other his leisure.
"Well, to begin at the very beginning," Blue Bonnet said, looking into the eager faces of the We Are Sevens, "we took an automobile from Cousin Tracy's house, where we were staying over the week-end.
The regular week-end visits to the babies suffered occasional interruptions, and gradually grew fewer and fewer, until he became to the children a vague and mysterious person named Papa, who dropped from the skies now and then, asked them a number of silly questions, talked with great politeness to Aunt Margaret who, they instinctively felt, liked him no better than they did and then disappeared, whereupon every one was immensely relieved.
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