This was so quietly done, that it seemed to me really a settled affair of some standing that I was to go to the Lake with Mr. "The Lake is really a charming place I think, Miss Willing, you would find a carriage an easier mode of conveyance, so far, than your pony shall I bring one for you? or do you still prefer to ride?" Harry Tempest picked it up, and, as I stooped, our eyes met he gave me the fan, and, turning from Messrs. I played with my fan nervously at length I dropped it. He took my bouquet from my hand, and stood smelling it, while my two acquaintance went on. I became aware that he had heard the discussion.
Presently Harry Tempest stood by my side. Vane and Payne harangued me about the splendid bowling-alley at the Lake, the mountain-strawberries, the boats, the gravel-walks! At last it became amusing to see how skilfully they each evaded and extinguished the other it was a game of chess, and he was to be victor who should first ask me if one verged upon the question, the other quickly interposed some delightful circumstance about the excursion, and called upon the first to corroborate his testimony neither, in Alexander's place, would have done anything but assure the other that the Gordian knot was very peculiarly tied, and quite tight. In the next room the passionate melancholy of a waltz was mocked and travestied by the frantic and ungrateful whirl that only Americans are capable of executing the music lived alone in upper air of men and dancing it was all unaware the involved cadences rolled away over the lawn, shook the dew-drooped roses on their stems, and went upward into the boundless moonlight to its home. I stood pushing apart the crushed flowers of my bouquet, in which all the gardener's art vindicated itself by making the airy grace of Nature into a flat, unmeaning mosaic. I did not doubt it would be charming, but neither of these two gentlemen would be endurable on such a drive, and each was determined to ask me first. Payne both were eagerly describing to me their arrangements for an excursion to the Lake.
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