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IN WHICH EVANS LIGHT BEGINS TO TWINKLE AGAIN.
The dowagers were now firmly planted on Olympus.

Along the grass lay the warm strong colours of the evening sun, reddening the pine-stems and yellowing the idle aspen-leaves.

For a moment it had hung in doubt whether the pic-nic could survive the two rude shocks it had received.
Happily the youthful element was large, and when the band, refreshed by chicken and sherry, threw off half-a-dozen bars of one of those irresistible waltzes that first catch the ear, and then curl round the heart, till on a sudden they invade and will have the legs, a rush up Parnassus was seen, and there were shouts and laughter and commotion, as over other great fields of battle the corn will wave gaily and mark the reestablishment of nature's reign.
How fair the sight! Approach the twirling couples.

They talk as they whirl.