The lessons lasted only an hour, but after that he usually found some excuse to stay: there was a new song that he wanted to hear, or a game of tennis, or a stroll down to the post-office.
But Kitty, instead of enlightening him in any such way turned the talk into channels of more personal interest, and made the short stroll so agreeable that it came to an end entirely too soon.
I told mothah I'd just stroll down to the post-office and be right back, and when I met Kitty with yoah lettah it drove everything else out of my head.
At one group of young matrons there was much merriment; and as Lord Darby chanced to stroll by, they hailed him banteringly, inviting him to join them.
The players relaxed their rigid attitudes, and began to rise from the table and stroll back by twos and threes into the smoking-room.
The inspector, no doubt, will be glad to take a stroll with you as far as Eaton Place, and have a bit of afternoon tea with your great acquaintances.
Stroll about the boulevards for a few hours--an occupation of which the true boulevardier seems never to get tired--and you will meet everyone you know in Paris.
Chapter 12 Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to strolldown to the sea before breakfast.
They came also for a stroll till breakfast was likely to be ready; but Louisa recollecting, immediately afterwards that she had something to procure at a shop, invited them all to go back with her into the town.
It was after dinner, and they were lingering over their coffee until it should be time to stroll in for an hour or so to the opera.
This was a fresh offence to Mrs. Kynaston; usually she enjoyed an evening stroll with her husband after dinner, but when he asked her to come out with him on this occasion, she refused, shortly and ungraciously.
When Maisrie and her grandfather returned from their stroll through the Park, the young man went back to the sheet of foolscap on which he meant to shadow forth the outlines of his lecture.
It will only serve to remind you of a morning on which you and I went for a little stroll down a breakwater at Brighton, when the Brighton people were so kind as to leave it all to ourselves.
Next morning, too, Lord Musselburgh again made his appearance; and the three of them went out for a stroll along the promenade.
When they were outside, and had gone on to the Parade, he besought his two companions, instead of taking their accustomed stroll into the town, to come away out into the country.
And if you're fittin' to take a stroll before I get back, maybe you'll not forget to lock the house up.
That same evening, a little before sunset, Nicky-Nan took a stroll along the cliff-path towards his devastated holding, to see what progress the military had made with their excavations.
He suggested that--his own kit being ready--they should strolldown together for a look.
Now stroll along, the lot of 'ee, and annoy somebody else that lives unprotected!
Grant pointed out logically that a man had a perfect right tostroll about on his own property, with or without a newspaper.
He had to get outside before they saw him, and stroll back into the office so that they could see him in time to turn into the driveway.
As there was no chapel, this illusive church stroll was purely a surviving symbolism.
Then he took a stroll into Piccadilly and on to Knightsbridge.
And this was why he laughed loud and long when he saw in the course of his stroll around the cliffs, a small oar jammed in a crevice of the rocks a hundred feet below where he was walking.
It was really delightful to stroll with her homeward under this starlit sky of London; to wander on and on while she chattered forth her history.
Confound his impudence, and what right had he to buy cigars, and what infernal assurance had led him to suppose he might stroll into Venner's in the third raw week of his uncuffed fresherdom?
She sleeps well in the morning, for in the evening she loves to stroll over to the bridge in the village.
THE HOOP I A woman was taking her morning stroll in a lonely suburban street; a boy of four was with her.
I intended a stroll about the farm, and it will be all the pleasanter for so fair a guide.
Wilt come and stroll along the river-bank for an hour?
We shall take up our daily grind to-morrow with a new zest for having forgotten it for a few hours, and find it less of a grind than usual; moreover, we now have an object to encourage another stroll in the country.
The man whose occupation keeps him in-doors all day should make special effort to pass some time in the open air, if possible walking or driving to and from his place of business, and taking at least a stroll in the evening.
Early in the morning we found a carpenter, who soon rigged us up a new mast, and after a stroll through the busy town to replenish our little stock of eatables, we again pursued our voyage.
We got in about seven, and had a stroll about the hilly old place, then went to a dining-room and had such a breakfast as my slim purse would afford.
I used frequently to cut several slices of bread and stroll about the garden and eat my breakfast direct from the bushes, while sometimes I would cook a fish and eat, finishing up with three or four apples or tomatoes with biscuits.
I used invariably to stroll through the garden daily and pluck a little of whatever fruit was ripe.
I take my stroll bareheaded and owe no man a copper cent.
On the following morning, after breakfasting with Belle, who was silent and melancholy, I left her in the dingle, and took a stroll among the neighbouring lanes.
Ere departing, however, I determined tostroll about and examine the town, and observe more particularly the humours of the fair than I had hitherto an opportunity of doing.
I had been taking a stroll in the neighbourhood, and was sitting in the dingle in rather a listless manner, scarcely knowing how to employ myself; his coming, therefore, was by no means disagreeable to me.
This Frenchman had returned, one morning, from a stroll on Goat Island, and reported with much apparent concern that his wife had fallen into the water, and been carried over the Fall.
Besides, she felt that nothing could be more in the unconventional spirit in which they meant to make their whole journey than a stroll about New York at half-past six in the morning.
He was not successful and Ted saw him stroll further down the street.
He took occasion to stroll down to the telegraph office later that same day.
He wanted to stroll about, peer into shop windows, watch the amazing electric signs, dally; but he still had much to accomplish.
We can't even stroll the street and admire the handsome gowns of our more fortunate sisters the way you men do.
For the past week whenever I've gone out for a stroll you've followed me.
They went out for a stroll about the barracks, which meant a look in at the horses, when Burnouse acknowledged his new master's presence with a whinny whose friendly sound was spoiled by an ugly, vicious way of laying back his ears.
