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Updated: June 4, 2025
Often, on lazy afternoons in the mountains, I have lain on the ground with my face under a sage-bush, and entertained myself with fancying that the gnats among its foliage were liliputian birds, and that the ants marching and countermarching about its base were liliputian flocks and herds, and myself some vast loafer from Brobdignag waiting to catch a little citizen and eat him.
He borrowed a sovereign and bought two cheeses; then cutting them up into small lots, he retailed them on the streets, Saturday afternoons, when the men were released from work.
A very pleasant, sociable fellow was this redbird, and often when on hot afternoons we were hiding in the treetops from the rays of the sun he told us stories and anecdotes about the people he had seen while he lived in the city. He and his brother had been caught in a trap in the woods set by a farmer's boy.
We used to live in flannels, and spent long afternoons together in the boat we had such a spiffing boat, as light and as clean in the water as a fish and we used to linger in the bulrushes, and come back when the moon was rising with our hands full of flowers." "But why was it broken off?"
"Not everybody does," she remarked "I mean real music, such as Friedrich plays." "I don't know," said Samuel. "Who is Friedrich?" "He's a friend of mine," Sophie answered. "He's a German boy. His father's the designer at the carpet works. And he plays the violin." "I should like to hear him," said he. "I'll take you," she volunteered. "I generally go to see them on Sunday afternoons.
He gave me lessons on Sunday afternoons, at my father's house, where he made his appearance very respectably dressed, in a beaver hat, blue surtout, whitish waistcoat, black trowsers and Wellingtons, all with a somewhat ancient look the Wellingtons I remember were slightly pieced at the sides but all upon the whole very respectable.
If it comes before Mysie or Val I will talk to them, and I mean to take this poor child alone for a little while each day in the week and try to get at her. 'There's another thing, said Gillian. 'Is she to go down with me always to Casement Cottages on Sunday afternoons when I take the class? 'To teach or to learn? ironically exclaimed Aunt Jane. 'Neither, said Gillian.
Floyd and I were walking one day where the oranges, lemons and cedrats were ripening in different degrees of maturity: they seemed to blossom and yield as freely as if in their native climates, and our favorite walk was there these chilly winter afternoons; for Mr. Floyd, always a shiverer, of late found every place except the tropical atmosphere of a greenhouse too cold for him.
The count rose at all seasons by four o'clock in the morning, and worked till mid-day, attended to his functions as peer of France and vice-president of the Council of State in the afternoons, and went to bed at nine o'clock. In recognition of such labor, the King had made him a knight of his various Orders.
She thought with longing about her innocent homeland: about the breezy sky, about the laughing young gentlemen, about tennis matches, and she felt nostalgia for the Sunday afternoons she took off her garters, placed her little bodice on a chair. She was inconsolable. On a transparent summer evening the Cafe Kloesschen was bathed in light.
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