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She achieved, "Oh, it's just been one of those quiet evenings that are often so much more enjoyable than noisy parties where everybody talks at once and doesn't really settle down to-nice quiet enjoyment." But from his cot on the sleeping-porch he heard her weeping, slowly, without hope. For a month they watched the social columns, and waited for a return dinner-invitation.
As to Alexa's words, they were simply the conventional utterance of the "nice" woman on a question already decided for her by other "nice" women. She had said the proper thing as mechanically as she would have put on the appropriate gown or written the correct form of dinner-invitation.
I was thinking of asking the Porters, as the Browns can't come. 'Very good. Do you know, I'm really afraid Mrs. Hale is very far from well, from what Dr. Donaldson says. 'It's strange of them to accept a dinner-invitation if she's very ill, said Fanny. 'I didn't say very ill, said her brother, rather sharply. 'I only said very far from well.
Comptroller Croft gave the affable Secretary a dinner-invitation for the following day. Here certainly was a masterly commencement on the part of the Spanish diplomatists. There was not one stroke of business during the visit of the Secretary.
Or perhaps this letter expresses Mr. Cushing's notion of what a proper answer to a dinner-invitation should be.
Comptroller Croft gave the affable Secretary a dinner-invitation for the following day. Here certainly was a masterly commencement on the part of the Spanish diplomatists. There was not one stroke of business during the visit of the Secretary.
Comptroller Croft gave the affable Secretary a dinner-invitation for the following day. Here certainly was a masterly commencement on the part of the Spanish diplomatists. There was not one stroke of business during the visit of the Secretary.
Comptroller Croft gave the affable Secretary a dinner-invitation for the following day. Here certainly was a masterly commencement on the part of the Spanish diplomatists. There was not one stroke of business during the visit of the Secretary.
She had gone without repeating that dinner-invitation an almost unendurable disappointment to him. On her part-well, she was suffering, too; for she had found she couldn't invite him. It was not hard yesterday, but it was impossible to-day. A thousand innocent privileges seemed to have been filched from her unawares in the past twenty-four hours.
The food reminded him of the dinner-invitation he was to deliver, and, as he forced down the rather heavy cake, he said: "Aunt Olive's killed a lamb, an' made an awful lot of things for dinner to-day, an' Uncle Dan'l says he'd be glad to have you come up. Ben's coming an' I'm goin' to find Ella, so's to have her come, an' we'll have a good time."
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