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"There'll be plenty o' starters, for all that, my lads!" observed the little tradesman. "Never you fear! There'll be candidates." Stoner drank off his ale and went away. Usually, being given to gossip, he stopped chatting with anybody he chanced to meet until it was close upon his supper-time. But the last remark sent him off.
I've never seen the old man since and never want to. Bad cess to him. "Would ye like a bite before ye turn in, sor? It's past supper-time, but I can find ye a scrapin' av something." "A bite and a bath, if I may?" I put in. "I'm sticky all over." "A bath! Right ye are. I knew ye was a toff the minute I clapped my blinkers on ye."
And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that." "Well, I suppose it is right," she said, with an air of resignation; "God knows. But I do not understand it. It is 'good for business, as you say, to preclude everything."
Before supper-time Peter was back in high spirits, with the needed new parts for the windmill, and an outfit of blue denim apparel for himself, and a little red sweater for Dinkie, and an armful of magazines for myself. Whinnie, as he stood watching Peter's return, clearly betrayed the disappointment which that return involved.
Supper-time was the best of all, for every pleasant evening they ate at a little table out of doors under the willow trees. One evening, when supper had been cleared away, they sat there together, with Fidel beside them, while Granny told a wonderful tale about the King of the Eels who lived in a crystal palace at the bottom of the river.
Accordingly, as soon as it was dusk, and before the King's supper-time, my brother changed his cloak, and concealing the lower part of his face to his nose in it, left the palace, attended by a servant who was little known, and went on foot to the gate of St. Honore, where he found Simier waiting for him in a coach, borrowed of a lady for the purpose.
For if, when it is five o'clock here, it may be two o'clock there and supper-time yonder, if it is night and day at the same moment, then is black white, and Pilate right and Heraclitus, and the nonconformist conscience a vain thing. In supporting correct moral principles, the Moon would be of some use, instead of staring at us with an idiot face, signifying nothing.
'And I followed her, he continued, 'till she come to that rest'runt where you an' me see her git the letter; she turned off right by the Midway gate, and went acrost to Wash'n'ton Avenue, an' down that till she turned to come to the rest'runt. 'Twas most supper-time, and she didn't come out no more, I'm sure, for I watched till most midnight, an' there wa'n't no back way, I know, for I looked.
But the darkness always found me stiff with work, and weary, and less able to think than to dream, may be, of Lorna. And now the house was so dull and lonesome, wanting Annie's pretty presence, and the light of Lorna's eyes, that a man had no temptation after supper-time even to sit and smoke a pipe.
Indeed, there were moments when he fancied the frustration of his purpose the special object of Queen Catherine's journey, but he had the wisdom to keep any such suggestion to himself. The King came back by supper-time, looking no longer in a state of indecision, but pale and morose.
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