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"Well, it all depends on what we have for dinner," said Bessie. "Ellen's biscuits are atrocious, I think, and you know how lumpy the oatmeal always is." "Suppose we try giving a dinner with the oatmeal and biscuit courses left out?" suggested Thaddeus, with a grin. Bessie's eyes twinkled. "You make very bright after-dinner speeches, Teddy," she said.
I gathered from Grodwitz and others that they managed to enliven their exile with plenty of flirtations, and squabbles. On this evening the Countess Stravensky was holding a reception in her apartments, with dancing and music; and all my usual after-dinner companions were attending it. "Better come, mon ami," urged Grodwitz. "You are not invited?
The plot was carried out to the letter. When Huerta put Gustavo Madero under arrest, still sitting at the table where Huerta had been his guest, Huerta sought to palliate his action by claiming that Gustavo Madero had tried to poison him by putting "knock-out" drops into Huerta's after-dinner brandy.
Meanwhile Brandon, with his back to the pair, covered his face with his handkerchief, and to all appearance yielded to the voluptuousness of an after-dinner repose. Lucy's song-book opened accidentally at a song which had been praised by Clifford; and as she sang, her voice took a richer and more tender tone than in Mauleverer's presence it had ever before assumed.
She joined in the laugh at her expense. Zura urged, "Lady Jinny, please get you a pair of crutches for that limp in your tongue." "Better than that, child. First operation in the hospital will be to take the kinks out of my foolish, twisted words." Afterwards in the sitting-room Zura went through her pretty little ceremony of making after-dinner coffee and serving it in some rare old Kutani cups.
I met his wife that evening for the first time; she may be introduced with the observation that if she was his reason for remaining in the provinces, never did man have a better one. We were on the veranda with our after-dinner cigars. I was congratulating Hovey on the felicity of his choice and jocularly sympathizing with his wife.
The Flopper pushed back his chair and stood up hesitantly like a man unexpectedly called upon for an after-dinner speech. He stood there awkwardly a moment gazing at Doc Madison, his tongue slowly circling his lips; then, with a gulp, as though words to express his feelings were utterly beyond him, he turned and started for the door. Pale Face Harry, as he rose, shoved out his hand.
Mavick, in the evening of the second eventful day, where, over his after-dinner cigar, he was amusing himself with a French novel, enters, after a little warning tap, the mistress of the house, for, what was a rare occurrence, a little family chat. "So you didn't horsewhip and you didn't prosecute. You preferred to wriggle out!"
I was humiliated and ashamed. I, Horace Johnson, a man of dignity and reputation, even in a small way, a successful after-dinner speaker, numbering fifty-odd years of logical living to my credit, had been running half-maddened toward a mythical danger from which I had been afraid to run away! I sat down and mopped my face with my pocket handkerchief.
Even in this century, in the golden days of book-making, we are told how Constable and how Ballantyne, the great publisher and the great printer of Edinburgh, "His Czarish Majesty," and "the Dey of All-jeers," as Scott would call them, delighted at their Sunday dinners to practise the same exercises as those which Smollett relates, how they would bring together for their diversion Constable's "poor authors," and start his literary drudges on an after-dinner foot-race for a new pair of breeches, and the like!
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