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"Has Sister Halsey paid anything for living in the House this month back?" At the insinuation that her money might be justly kept in payment of this debt if she spurned the Church's hospitality, Susannah's heart sank. She admitted its justice. It was part of her character to admit all possible claim against her. The sleek elder, following his advantage, spoke again.
But when a life has been bounded by household hopes and anxieties, they assume an undue importance, and since her mother's death, two years previously, there had been no company at Hallam. This was to be Elizabeth's first effort of active hospitality.
And he refused to take any pay for it, in a sort of surprise that such a simple act of hospitality should have any commercial value. But travelers themselves destroy one of their chief pleasures.
Poor Leicester was greatly disturbed by this singular and unconscious claim upon his hospitality which had so recently arisen.
But I avow that the liberality of the parting largesse is to be attributed to the meanest motives of personal fear. On the railway platform, shaking the mud of Washington from my drenched boots, I purposed never to return thither. But I reckoned without my future hosts, MM. Seward and Stanton, who, though I have trespassed on their hospitality, now for some weeks, seem still loth to let me go.
I resolved to tell them nothing further about myself, well knowing that the more I told them the more convinced they would be that I was a wandering lunatic. I learned that these men were a party of decent young fellows from Coolgardie. They offered me a meal of tea and damper, and pressed me to stay the night with them, but I declined their hospitality.
"Do so," said Cap, "for heaven forbid that I should fail in hospitality!" "Why, really, this looks as though you had expected a visitor doesn't it?" asked Black Donald, helping himself to a huge slice of ham, and stretching his feet out toward the fire. "Well, yes, rather; though, to say the truth, it was not your reverence I expected," said Cap. "Ah! somebody else's reverence, eh?
I became convinced that the poor fellow was in love; very little management on my part was necessary to obtain his confession; and accordingly, the same evening the thought first struck me, as we were riding slowly home towards O'Malley Castle, I touched at first generally upon the merits of the Blakes, their hospitality, etc., then diverged to the accomplishments and perfections of the girls, and lastly, Baby herself, in all form, came up for sentence.
But then he often failed to recall people he had met on a spree, and he did not like to hurt these cordial revelers' feelings by disclaiming knowledge of them. Especially when they told him merrily that, for this evening at least, his money was made of wood and that he must be their guest. Never before had he met with such wholesouled hospitality. One drink followed another with gratifying speed.
At Vaccarizza they call such relics "pic" they are supposed, as usual, to be thunderbolts, and I am also told that a piece of string tied to one of them cannot be burnt in fire. The experiment might be worth trying. Meanwhile, the day passed pleasantly at Vaccarizza. I became the guest of a prosperous resident, and was treated to genuine Albanian hospitality and excellent cheer.
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