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Really, it is quite exciting." "Thank you, Mrs. Daventry. It is very good of you. But I'm sure Miss Bunce ought to go to sleep." "I am not a bit sleepy," said the girl, "and I shall certainly help Mrs. Daventry." "Come along then, my dear," said the hostess. "We will go and see to things at once." In five minutes Mr. Daventry was down.
"Aye, sir, aye a full muster," answered the old mild-faced hostess, who was busily employed knitting a stocking of pale blue in the porch, looking for all the world like the sainted mother of a family of saints. Michael Texel walked straight through a passage and down a narrow alley, the beautiful apple-cheeked old woman following us with her eyes as we went.
"And do you propose to tell him outright that he has been here long enough?" "What I propose to say to him is my own affair. You needn't distress yourself on his account. Dick and I understand one another perfectly." "No doubt you do. But after all, I am his hostess, and though you may not object to being flagrantly inhospitable, I do very strongly.
'Here I am, said the editor, from the remotest end of the room; far beyond all hope of food, unless something was done for him by the hostess. 'Won't you come up here? 'Oh, pray don't mind him, said Mrs. Pott, in the most obliging voice 'you give yourself a great deal of unnecessary trouble, Mrs. Hunter. You'll do very well there, won't you dear?
"The effect on the upholstery and metallic ornaments is as bad as upon the books," added our hostess. "This room will have to be refurnished in the spring all on account of the changes in color both of the paper and the silk and cotton fabrics; and the bronze dressing on those statuettes is softening, so that there are lines and spots of rust all over them."
The cure himself had received no less than four copies, at the hands of an urchin to whom she had paid two sous' commission. She said sometimes to our hostess, abruptly, without preparing herin the least for the declaration: "'I love the Saviour more than all; I worship him in all creation; I adore him in all nature; I carry him always in my heart.
Our dinner-table was set out on the platform of the station at Chitorgarh, and our bedrooms were close by, our host and hostess sleeping in the "special" by which they were to return to Udaipur in the morning, while we slept in a siding, ready to be coupled up to the early train from Bombay.
But before I had time to say more, Atherley in his smoking-coat looked in to see if I was coming or not. "Don't keep Mr. Lyndsay up late, George," said my kind hostess; "he looks so tired." "You look dead beat," he said later on, in his own particular and untidy den, as he carefully stuffed the bowl of his pipe.
Only under the chestnuts tiny flickering shadows seemed to dance in and out among the tree-boles. Colonel Godfrey had just been summoned to a business interview, and for the first time that day Malcolm found himself alone with his hostess. "Oh, by the bye," he observed rather abruptly, "there is something I want to ask you.
Though her ill-health never allowed her to be a hostess on a big scale, her parties, whether in Somersetshire or at Cannes, were always voted delightful. Everyone, from Somersetshire farmer or clergyman, to the notables of a Riviera winter resort, owned her social charm.
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