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Visiting begins at breakfast time, when it ends I know not, and receiving and making visits, court festivities, entertainments given by the commissioners of the great powers, riding parties, picnics, verandah parties, "sociables," and luncheon and evening parties on board the ships of war, succeed each other with frightful rapidity.
He'd study law, yes; but that would not prevent going to sociables and church fairs. And at these fairs the chances were good for a meeting with a girl. Her father must be influential county judge or district attorney. Marriage would open new avenues He was roused by the sound of his own name. "Is Albert Lohr in this car?" shouted the brakeman, coming in, enveloped in a cloud of fine snow.
Gad Greenfield performing one of the "orchestral pieces" which the programme had led us to expect? The piano was an antique, accustomed to serve as victim at Sudleigh's dancing-school and sociables. I have never heard its condition described, on its return to Sudleigh; I only know that, from some eccentric partiality, Gad Greenfield's music was all fortissimo.
He had not only been the principal grocer in the vicinity for five years, but he had served on Ward Committees for the relief of the poor at other people's expense, and had participated largely in those admirable institutions for the promotion of matrimony known as Sociables. Therefore, Quigg knew about everybody on the block worth knowing.
Then there was a great deal to be said about sociables, and theatres, and sets, and fellows; and there was also more or less conversation, carried on in a low tone that occasionally descended to a whisper, which, beyond that it seemed to have reference to marriage and kindred matters, was for the most part Greek to Cornelia.
The committee was in the library by the back stairs, and me and my chum got the cat boxes all together, at the top of the stairs, and we took them all out and put them in a clothes basket, and just as the minister was speaking, and telling what a great good was done by these oyster sociables, in bringing the young people together, and taking their minds from the wickedness of the world, and turning their thoughts into different channels, one of the old tom cats in the basket gave a 'purmeow' that sounded like the wail of a lost soul, or a challenge to battle.
Albert held Maud's arm close to his side. "Are you cold?" he asked, in a low voice. "No, thank you; the night is lovely," she replied; then added, with a sigh, "I don't like sociables so well as I used to they tire me out." "We stayed too long." "It wasn't that; I'm getting so they seem kind o' silly." "Well, I feel a little that way myself," he confessed.
"No, thank you; the night is lovely," she replied; then added with a sigh, "I don't like sociables so well as I used to they tire me out." "We stayed too long." "It wasn't that; I'm getting so they seem kind o' silly." "Well, I feel a little that way myself," he confessed. "But there is so little to see here in Tyre at any time no music, no theaters. I like theaters, don't you?"
To do its leaders justice, he admitted that this might have been partly through their hesitancy to hurt Rose who was always to be found in the thick of its sale-dinners, bazaars and sociables.
He did it because he wanted to talk to her, and the grass was cool and easy; there wasn't any other chair, anyway. "Do they keep up the ly-ceum and the sociables same as ever?" "Yes. The others go a good 'eal, but I don't. We're gettin' such a stock round us, and father thinks he needs me s' much, I don't get out often. Fm gettin' sick of it."
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