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Then it was only a kiss of the hand and a hurried remark or two, at a large dinner-party at the Winwoods'. You see, there are such forces as rank and precedence at London dinner-parties, to which even princesses and fortunate youths have to yield. On this occasion, as he bent over her hand, he murmured: "May I say how beautiful you are to-night, Princess?"
"Can't you give me a part of the money today?" Ellis shook his head. "I have notes in bank, and they must take the precedence of all other payments." "To-morrow, then?" "I have five hundred dollars to pay to-morrow." The man's countenance began to lower. "Just go to Mr. Carlton, if you please, and tell him what I say. He's a man of common sense; he will listen to reason."
"'My dears, she began, 'the only chance of restoring order is to observe method. Let us follow our usual rule of precedence. I claim the first turn as the prisoner's oldest toy. "'That you are not, Miss, snapped the Dowager; 'I was in the family for fifty years. "'In the family. Yes, ma'am; but you were never her doll in particular.
He found the former busied in determining disputes among his clansmen about points of precedence and deeds of valour, besides sundry high and doubtful questions concerning plunder. The most important of the last respected the property of a gold watch, which had once belonged to some unfortunate English officer.
The eight priors were chosen, two for each quarter; the Gonfalonier, their chief, differed in no respect from his colleagues save in precedence of dignity; and as the fourth part of the honors pertained to the members of the lesser arts, their turn kept coming round to that quarter to which the Gonfalonier belonged.
I can bear it no longer this diabolical invention of gentility which kills natural kindliness and honest friendship. Proper pride, indeed! Rank and precedence, forsooth! The table of ranks and degrees is a lie, and should be flung into the fire. Organize rank and precedence! that was well for the masters of ceremonies of former ages.
The Delphians, in their turn, conferred special privileges and honors upon the Lydians and upon Croesus in respect to their oracle, giving them the precedence in all future consultations, and conferring upon them other marks of distinction and honor.
Never, perhaps, had Eldon Parr given such complete proof of his lack of spiritual intuition. The atmosphere, charged with presage for him, gave him nothing. "Mr. Hodder takes a strange way of delivering it," was his comment. Mercy took precedence over her natural directness. She laid her hand gently on his arm.
Nobody doubts her right to have precedence of mamma, but it would be more becoming in her not to be always insisting on it. It is not that mamma cares about it the least in the world, but I know it is taken notice of by many persons." How was Anne to set all these matters to rights?
We must never lose sight of the fact, that here teachers and professors can do little, and that the only way in which it in possible to acquire the habits of good society is to live in no other." MARRIED ladies and elderly gentlemen are allowed to claim precedence at the card-table, over single young ladies and the younger men.
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