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Updated: June 24, 2025
A very characteristic little piece of the social democracy of America is seen at its best in Chicago, though not unknown in other large cities. On the evening of a hot summer day cushions and rugs are spread on the front steps of the houses, and the occupants take possession of these, the men to enjoy their after-dinner cigars, the women to talk and scan the passers-by.
I am taken right in to be one of the family, and I have a good time every day now. Aunt Margaret's father is a college teacher, and Aunt Margaret's grandfather looks like the father of his country. You know who I mean George Washington. They have a piano here that plays itself like a sewing machine. They let me do it. They have after-dinner coffee and gold spoons to it.
The King had seen Monseigneur several times during the day; but in his after-dinner visit he was so much struck with the extraordinary swelling of the face and of the head, that he shortened his stay, and on leaving the chateau, shed tears. He was reassured as much as possible, and after the council he took a walk in the garden.
Take the adult males throughout the kingdom, and a great majority will be found to show some interest in the breeding, rearing, or training of animals, of one kind or other. But, during after-dinner conversations, or at other times of like intercourse, who hears anything said about the rearing of children?
"There are just as many miles in a candy factory as any other," he replied. "Any of the men who work there would tell you that, I fancy." "But they are such nice miles!" argued Bob. "Don't you say we go, Van?" "I sure do. I want to see how they dip chocolates," Van answered. "It's all aboard to-morrow morning, then," Mr. Carlton said as he lit his after-dinner cigar.
The answer is not yet made, the oracle has not spoken, and we must not invade the penumbra of genius. It has always been a comfort to the awkward and the shy that Washington could not make an after-dinner speech; and the well-known anecdote "Sit down, Mr. Washington, your modesty is even greater than your valor " must have consoled many a voiceless hero.
"What's that?" said Miss Crawley, interrupted in her after-dinner doze by the stoppage of the music. "It's a false note," Miss Sharp said with a laugh; and Rawdon Crawley fumed with rage and mortification. Seeing the evident partiality of Miss Crawley for the new governess, how good it was of Mrs.
His intimate pals seem to be middle-aged millionaires who are known to me in only the most casual way; and he is a sort of gentleman-in-waiting I believe the accepted term is "pet cat" to several society women, for whom he devises new cotillion figures, arranges original after-dinner entertainments and makes himself generally useful.
It was the fisher-people's custom to put aside some of the catch before it was delivered to the inn-keeper, and one day Ditte took a beautiful thick plaice, and told Kristian to run with it to the old couple. "But they mustn't know that it is from us," said she. "They'll be having their after-dinner nap, so you can easily leave it without their seeing you."
"Well, I don't know," said Eleanor, puckering her brows and nursing her knees, as we all sat or lounged on the school-room floor, during the after-dinner recreation minutes, in various awkward but restful attitudes; "I can growl as well as anybody, but I never feel satisfied with bewailing over and over again that black's black.
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