Besides, now that the
boat had drawn up to the pier, and discharged part of her passengers, and
was waiting to take on others, Lucy was interested in a mass of fluttering
dresses and wide-rimmed straw hats that drew down toward the "Rose
Standish," and gracefully thronged the pier, and prettily hesitated about,
and finally came aboard with laughter and little false cries of terror,
attended through all by the New England disproportion of that sex which is
so foolish when it is silly. It was a large picnic party which had been
spending the day upon the beach, as each of the ladies showed in her face,
where, if the roses upon her cheeks were somewhat obscured by the
imbrowning seaside sun, a bright pink had been compensatingly bestowed
upon the point of her nose. A mysterious quiet fell upon them all when
they were got aboard and had taken conspicuous places, which was accounted
for presently when a loud shout was heard from the shore, and a man beside
an ambulant photographic machine was seen wildly waving his hat.
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