United States or Åland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I thanked him for a thrashing in a curt reply. My father had left the house early in the morning. Mrs. Waddy believed that he meant to dine that evening at the season's farewell dinner of the Trump-Trick Club: 'Leastways, Tollingby has orders to lay out his gentlemen's-dinners' evening-suit. Yesterday afternoon he flew down to Chippenden, and was home late.
'Let it be so, she rejoined, not pacified beneath her dignity. She named the bedchamber to a footman. 'And I'll accompany the boy to hurry him on, said the captain, hurrying Patrick on as he spoke, till he had him out of the dining-room, when he whispered: 'Out with your key, and if we can scramble you into your evening-suit quick we shall heal the breach in the dinner.
'Let it be so, she rejoined, not pacified beneath her dignity. She named the bedchamber to a footman. 'And I'll accompany the boy to hurry him on, said the captain, hurrying Patrick on as he spoke, till he had him out of the dining-room, when he whispered: 'Out with your key, and if we can scramble you into your evening-suit quick we shall heal the breach in the dinner.
I thanked him for a thrashing in a curt reply. My father had left the house early in the morning. Mrs. Waddy believed that he meant to dine that evening at the season's farewell dinner of the Trump-Trick Club: 'Leastways, Tollingby has orders to lay out his gentlemen's-dinners' evening-suit. Yesterday afternoon he flew down to Chippenden, and was home late.
When can you dine? To-morrow? 'With pleasure with great pleasure. 'Delightful! She gave her address, and they parted. Now, a proof that Mr. Tymperley had never lost all hope of restitution to his native world lay in the fact of his having carefully preserved an evening-suit, with the appropriate patent-leather shoes.
It may be a very trivial matter, yet it is certain that fancy dress gives a peculiar charm, freedom, and brightness to festivities of the kind; and men who in the ordinary mournful black evening-suit would be taciturn of speech and conventional in bearing, throw off their customary reserve when they find themselves in the brilliant and becoming attire of some picturesque period when dress was an art as well as a fashion; and not only do they look their best, but they somehow manage to put on "manner" with costume, and to become courteous, witty, and graceful to a degree that sometimes causes their own relatives to wonder at them and speculate as to why they have grown so suddenly interesting.
He was in a West Riding evening-suit, he had a flower in his coat, and a pair of white gloves in his hand. "Rich people all hev their rights," he said, "but a poor lad like me can't spend his hard-earned wage without heving to pay this and that sixpenny claim " "For board and lodging, Sam," cried a pretty girl impatient for the talking to cease, and the dance to begin.
Word Of The Day