astormore

Updated: May 24, 2025

Friend wife met me by appointment to take dinner at the Saint Astormore the other evening and with her was her little brother, Stephen, aged nine. "I brought Stevie with me because I had some shopping to do and he's so much company," Peaches explained as we sat down in the restaurant.

George V. (George Vere) Hobart - You Should Worry Says John Henry

On our way home night before last Hep and I dropped into the Saint Astormore for a cocktail, and at a table near us sat Pop Goober and something else which afterwards turned out to be a Prussian nobleman the Count Cheese von Cheese. When Hep got a flash of these two his goat kicked down the door of its box-stall and began cavorting all over the Western Hemisphere.

George V. (George Vere) Hobart - You Should Worry Says John Henry

Then we finished our dinner in all the refined silence the Saint Astormore so carefully furnishes. Dike's sad story of misplaced affection and an unused dictionary puts us wise to the fact that in these changeful days even the old-fashioned idea of courtship has been chased to the woods.

George V. (George Vere) Hobart - You Should Worry Says John Henry