Winkle was far too wise to do anything of the kind, in skates. He was seated on the ice, making spasmodic efforts to smile, but anguish was depicted on every lineament of his countenance.
Weller, and said in a stern voice, 'Take his skates off.'
He pretends to skate, and this is how he succeeds:--
Linon, said something to her, and went towards the pavilion where the ladies took off their skates.
At that moment one of the young men, the best of the skaters of the day, came out of the coffee-house in his skates, with a cigarette in his mouth.
He took off his skates, and overtook the mother and daughter at the entrance of the gardens.
He stood on the shore, listening to the grinding, swaying sound of the skates, and watching the growing complexity of the curves they were engraving on the ice.
The time passed quickly; when Miss Ward sent for him to take off her skates there was a general groan and declaration that it could not possibly be half-past eight o'clock yet.
"Allow me, Miss," he said to Gertrude, who was standing on one leg, leaning on Agatha, and taking off her own skates.
"Even in India we don't exactly skate all the year round," observed Mr.
For the weather steadily hardened and sharpened; that night the ice of the lake, glimmering in the moonlight, was like a marble floor, and they had begun to dance and skate on it before it was dark.
"Uncle sent those; I know he did; and, now I see them, I remember that I did want to
skate and coast.