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She is very gay, very talkative, gives excellent suppers, and always has her box at the Opera crowded with admirers; but that is all. She encourages many, and favours but one. Happy Borodaile! My lot is less fortunate! You know, I suppose, that Julia has deserted me?" "You astonish me, and for what?"
When at last the funeral was over and the people came out, they bent their heads before this wild storm which came from the earth instead of the sky. The cemetery was a mile out of the village; when the procession came driving rapidly home it was nearly sunset, and the thoughts of the people turned from poor Ephraim to their suppers. It is only for a minute that death can blur life for the living.
She would remember it by and by with renewed shame; but, just now, she had somehow shifted the blame upon innocent Prudy, forgetting that that dear little sister did not even know she was in the house. "And I sha'n't eat any supper," continued the shivering Dotty. "I wonder how many dinners and suppers 'twould take to starve folks to death?
"The impudence!" said Miss Port to herself; "but if they like waitin, they can wait, I guess they'll get enough of it!" So Maria Port sat in her room and the ladies sat in the parlor below; and they sat, and they sat, and they sat, and at last it began to grow dark. "I guess they'll be wantin' their suppers," said Maria, "but they'll go and get them without seein' me.
If Professor Liebig wishes to add to his reputation, he could do so by analyzing this dish, and publishing the result to the world. And, while we are speaking of eating, it may be inferred that the Germans are good eaters; and although they do not begin early, seldom taking much more than a cup of coffee before noon, they make it up by very substantial dinners and suppers.
Good- looking, vain, impudent, heartless, frivolous, and dissipated; adepts at the gaming table and pistol gallery, ciphers in an intelligent, refined assembly. They smoked the choicest cigars, drank the most costly wines, drove the fastest horses, and were indispensable at champagne and oyster suppers.
The village doctor, after his precarious drive in the ancient sulky, had a night of toil. Caleb commonly called Kellup Bates, and his son Thomas, were the principal sufferers, they being notorious eaters and the terrors of sewing-circle suppers.
Consequently the young doctor arrived well accredited, and was received in his first year with many tokens of hospitality in the shape of tea-parties and suppers. But the final and esoteric approval of Calvinton was a thing apart from these mere fashionable courtesies and worldly amenities a thing not to be bestowed without due consideration and satisfactory reasons.
When the young officials used to talk in his presence of boisterous suppers on shore with women from distant countries, the pilot had always shrugged his shoulders. "Money and pleasure ought to be kept for the home," he would say sententiously.
Thar's a big room whar you dance if you can and whar they give little suppers for us with not much to eat; and thar's a place where they sorter preach to ye lecture she calls it. I don't know what-all Miss Lyddy hain't got for her club.
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