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"Ask Nick, my dear fellow," Strefford answered for her; and: "By the way, where is Nick if one may ask?" young Breckenridge interposed, glancing up to take belated note of his host's absence. "Dining out," said Susy glibly. "People turned up: blighting bores that I wouldn't have dared to inflict on you." How easily the old familiar fibbing came to her!
"Is the heir present at our host's banquet?" "No; they are not friends." "No matter; he will be here to-morrow!" Mascari stared in surprise; but the signal for the banquet was given, and the guests were marshalled to the board. As was the custom, the feast took place at midday.
When the peasants had not forestalled us, we returned home with masses of mushrooms, flower-like in hue, bronze, pink, snow-white, green, and yellow; and Osip cooked them delicately, in sour cream, to accompany the juicy young blackcock and other game of our host's shooting.
When morning was come, Ulysses made offer to depart, as if he were not willing to burden his host's hospitality any longer, but said that he would go and try the humanity of the townsfolk, if any there would bestow upon him a bit of bread or a cup of drink. "Alas! poor guest," said Eumaeus, "you know not what you speak. What should so poor and old a man as you do at the suitors' tables?
"Why, Jabez, lad," cried Isaiah, "thee lookest like a stuck pig. What's the matter?" The host's eyes were rounded with astonishment, and he was staring from one of his guests to the other with an air of fatuous wonder. "Why," said he, with an emphasis of astonishment which seemed not altogether in keeping with so simple a discovery, "this here Rachel Blythe was my first wife's second cousin.
Frederic comported himself like a man the more courageously because the host's cold eye was upon him, and he surmised that sighs and sentimentality would meet very scant indulgence in that quarter. Moreover, he was not so unreasonable as to descry insupportable hardships in this parting. By agreement with Mr.
Mr. Crewe, as political-geniuses will, asked as many questions as the emperor of Germany pertinent questions about State politics. Senator Grady was tremendously impressed with his host's programme of bills, and went over them so painstakingly that Mr. Crewe became more and more struck with Senator Grady's intelligence. The senator told Mr.
"Is the heir present at our host's banquet?" "No; they are not friends." "No matter; he will be here to-morrow!" Mascari stared in surprise; but the signal for the banquet was given, and the guests were marshalled to the board. As was the custom, the feast took place at midday.
But about the middle of the lake Buntingford was seized with belated compunction that he had not done his host's duty to his queer, inarticulate cousin, Lady Georgina. "I suppose I ought to have gone to look after her?" "Not at all," said Helena coolly. "I believe she does it often. She can't want more than Lady Cynthia and Geoffrey and Mawson. People shouldn't be pampered!"
"And a brave one too, I'll warrant," said Francis, holding out his hand, quite forgetful of his new character as a travelling nobleman, for his host's heir to kiss.
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