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After midnight, however, my opportunity came. First getting rid of a horrible person, who would persist in following Min about under the false pretence that his name was on her card for several of the after-supper dances an assertion I knew to be ridiculously unfounded; for, I had taken care to place my own name down for as many as Min would give me, and, all the latter ones I had appropriated also without asking her permission, thinking that when that happy time arrived, she would not be very hard on me for my presumption; nor was she.
He liked Elsie better than any young lady he had ever seen. The trouble was, that between the two, he, as he would have expressed it, "didn't have the peace of a dog." Before Elsie came, a game of checkers between Perez and himself had been the regular after-supper amusement. Now they played whist, Captain Eri and Elsie against him and his former opponent.
Excellent eating they proved, having only the fault that there was not enough of them. These birds formed the topic of our after-supper conversation, and then it generalised to the different species of wading birds of America, and at length that singular creature, the "ibis," became the theme.
When we learn, also, that in the precious lives of these little ones we cannot reap what we do not sow, and we must reap all which we do sow, and that the emptiness or the richness of the harvest is not so much for us as for them, one of the first among the many things which we shall reform will be "children's parties." After-Supper Talk. "After-dinner talk" has been thought of great importance.
I passed a flock of sheep biting their hasty supper from the grass; and each one with a little cloud of gnats buzzing around it, that with feeble stings, poor insects, were trying for their supper too. And 'tis effect we have upon another. The birds had taken home their worm-cheer to the little ones in the nests, and were singing their after-supper songs, very sweetly but drowsily.
Then she struck off down Grand Avenue and past Donovan's pool shack. A little group of after-supper idlers stood outside, smoking and gossiping, as she knew there would be. As she turned the corner she saw Nap Ballou among them. She had known that, too. As she passed she looked straight ahead, without bowing. But just past the Burke House he caught up to her.
The words alone might have been mere playfulness; glance and tone made plain the purposed offense. The after-supper crowd in the hotel barroom had suddenly slipped away, leaving Max Barkeep, three others, and John Wesley Pringle the last not unnoting of nudge and whisper attending the exodus.
But she never glanced suddenly in his direction without finding that he was watching her. "I tell you, this is fine," he said heartily as he was lighting his after-supper pipe. "Mrs. Sharp won't hardly know the place when she comes over. She's never seen it except when I was housekeeper. She doesn't think I'm much good at it.
"It'll be still going, then?" "Strong. They'll be in full swing, now, of after-supper dancing." "That settles it: I'm going." The boy lifted on his elbow in amaze, then subsided with a grunt of pain. "You're going?" "You say you've got a costume of some sort here? I'll borrow it. We're much of a size." "Heaven knows you're welcome, but " "But what?" "You have no invitation."
In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said: "Maybe they ain't no valley of the moon. An' if they ain't, what of it? We could keep on this way forever. I don't ask nothing better." "There is a valley of the moon," Saxon answered soberly. "And we are going to find it. We've got to. Why Billy, it would never do, never to settle down.
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