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Jarvis, but he lingered on, loth to leave, if the truth be told afraid to leave; drawing strength from his host's calm, wondering as to the source of it, as to the life which was its expression; longing, yet not presuming, to question. The twilight deepened, and the old darky lit a lamp and led the way back to the library. "Sam," said Mr. Bentley, "draw up the armchair for Mr.
Although there was no chance of seeing "tigers," it was something to know that such creatures were really there; that I was actually in the native home of "wild-beasts." The floor of my host's parlour was covered with the beautiful spotted skins of animals which had been shot or trapped by himself.
How much a million two million?" "Oh, not as much as that, worse luck! But quite enough to buy at least three decent cars if he was half a sportsman! And he won't get one!" Mr. Carrington was now trying to balance his cake in his saucer and was evidently too absorbed in his efforts to notice his host's waxing displeasure.
"Is it wicked in a man to have an eye for beauty?" he said. "I know that my host's heart has thrilled many a time when he caught a glimpse of the lady who is now his wife and the very competent head of his household." It was obvious, but both smiled. "Hans is not so bad," said the hausfrau complacently, and John's compliment won him an unusually good room that night.
"If you are willing, gentlemen, I will sleep across your doorway, and you will then be certain that nobody can reach you." "And on what will you sleep?" said d'Artagnan. "Here is my bed," replied Planchet, producing a bundle of straw. "Come, then," said d'Artagnan, "you are right. Mine host's face does not please me at all; it is too gracious." "Nor me either," said Athos.
"Hush, Anthony, hush, for shame!" replied his fellow-soldier, "if ever I heard our host's step, I heard it this instant; so give over thy grumbling, since our captain, as we all know, hath prohibited, under strict penalties, all quarrels between his followers and the people of the country."
And from this fact, coupled with his written instructions, it might, one would have thought, safely have been inferred that he desired no costly magnificence at his obsequies. Yet the point was obscured in his late host's mind by a thick cloud of doubts and scruples. Mr.
The stream of talk on either side of the host's chair was now beginning to flow cheerfully and continuously; the wine-conversation had worn itself out; and one of the elder guests Mr. Wendell was occupied in telling the other guest Mr. Trowbridge of a small fraud which had lately been committed on him by a clerk in his employment. The first part of the story I missed altogether.
The skate was served, and they had the vinegar bottle put on the table to improve the flavour of the black butter, which seemed rather insipid. They ate with a will, and the hunks of bread swiftly disappeared. There was nothing refined about the repast, and the wine was mere common stuff, which they watered considerably from a feeling of delicacy, in order to lessen their host's expenses.
No Italian opera can give such delight to the sated man of pleasure as the tired laborer feels in listening to the evening song with which some loved one, in his home, sings him to repose. "You speak con amore" said Horace Danforth, smiling at his host's fervor. "I do. Had I been excluded from the refinements of social life, I should long since have fainted and grown weary of my toil here.
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