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Very flamboyant, doomed to failure, so far as his merit is concerned, but with an incredible luck. He gambled, and he lost a dozen times; and then gambled again, and won. That's the truth, I fancy. No real stuff in him whatever." Their hostess put down her tea-cup, and looked at Dicky in blank surprise. Not a muscle in his face moved. She looked at Kingsley.
A late dinner brought us together again in a small dining room, the convalescents having eaten their simple meal and disappeared an hour before. During this time, another transformation had taken place in our mercurial hostess! It was the Calvé of Paris, Calvé the witch, Calvé the capiteuse, who presided at the dainty, flower-decked table and led the laughing conversation.
Therefore the vested interest must go." . . . He turned to his hostess. "I'm sorry to run away like this, Mrs. Smallwood, but I'm a busy man. . . ." She rose at once; nothing would have induced her to forgo walking through the restaurant with him. Later she would describe the progress to her intimates in her usual staccato utterances, like a goat hopping from crag to crag.
Well, it's been a great occasion, Mrs. Munger." He winked at the hostess. "You've had your little invited supper, after all. You're a manager, Mrs. Munger. You've made even the wrath of Brother Peck to praise you." The ladies involuntarily shrank backward as Putney suddenly entered through the window and gained the corner of the piano at a dash.
In your presence I shall not presume to call it a will." The value of travel oftentimes depends upon who travels. Mrs. Williams, who had recently returned from abroad, was attending an afternoon tea which was given in her honor. "And did you actually go to Rome?" asked the hostess. "I really don't know, my dear," replied Mrs. Williams. "You see, my husband always bought the tickets."
As we had nothing to do we strolled round the grounds and looked at the shrubbery for a couple of hours, at the end of which period we had tea alone in the library. We had, of course, no sooner finished than the belated party entered, the hostess full of vociferous apologies.
"Oh, yes! He's in the same style as the drawing room and that's why it is he's so often here." This conversation was maintained, since it rested on allusions to what could not be talked of in that room that is to say, of the relations of Tushkevitch with their hostess.
Remember those girls we met this summer, and how we promised never, never to use it at least as commonly as they did! We never realized how it sounded until we heard them." "Oh, Cora, do stop. I've such a lot to tell you!" and Bess laid a plump and rosy palm over the smiling lips of her hostess. "So I gathered, Bess, from your manner. But you must not be in such a hurry.
Everybody had accepted, as the hostess announced with a groan and a laugh; and the vicar threatened to be called abroad on urgent business, so alarmed was he at the prospect of the fashionable throng which was to invade his shabby precincts.
She hurried to her room, and placing her watch on the dressing-table, so timed her packing that it should not be completed a moment before the lumbering country "fly" drove up to the door. Then, fully dressed, she descended the staircase, and held out a gloved hand to her hostess, apparently unconscious of an offered kiss.
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