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"I am inclined to think," he said slowly, "that it is you who have got me on the operating table again." He gave her a quick glance, at once the unhappiest and the most human look that she had ever seen upon his face. "No," said she, gently, "if you are on the table, you have put yourself there this time." "Well, good-by " "And are you coming to see me to pay your party-call?"
"I think you will have to come now, for this was a party, and a party calls for a party-call. Oh, can you make as clever a pun as that?" "Thank you but I never pay calls." "Oh, but you are beginning to do a good many things that you never did before." "Yes," he answered with curious depression. "I am." "Well, don't look so glum about it.
Hobart, as lightly and cheerily as if it had been the putting together of a Christmas pudding, and she were ready for the citron or the raisins, "now all that beautiful china!" She had been here at one great, general party, and remembered the china, although her party-call, like all her others, had been a failure. Mrs.
Horn's, they both made their party-call, as Mela said, in due season; but they did not find Mrs. Horn at home, and neither she nor Miss Vance came to see them after people returned to town in the fall. They tried to believe for a time that Mrs. Horn had not got their cards; this pretence failed them, and they fell back upon their pride, or rather Christine's pride.
Horn's, they both made their party-call, as Mela said, in due season; but they did not find Mrs. Horn at home, and neither she nor Miss Vance came to see them after people returned to town in the fall. They tried to believe for a time that Mrs. Horn had not got their cards; this pretence failed them, and they fell back upon their pride, or rather Christine's pride.
Horn's, they both made their party-call, as Mela said, in due season; but they did not find Mrs. Horn at home, and neither she nor Miss Vance came to see them after people returned to town in the fall. They tried to believe for a time that Mrs. Horn had not got their cards; this pretence failed them, and they fell back upon their pride, or rather Christine's pride.
"He was here to dinner just two weeks ago and perfectly all right. We had a nice, long chat together on the sofa. But he didn't make his party-call quite as soon as he usually does, so when I saw him at Brenda's wedding I thought of course he'd come up and tell me how busy he'd been or some other taradiddle. But he didn't come near me.
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