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"Well, really really as much as you like, but any woman could propose to a blind man a little way off, certainly only I don't know that Gwen ..." However, the Countess stopped short of her daughter's reference to a respectful distance and card-leaving. It was at this point that Gwen and Irene were audible on the stairs, suggesting the lateness of the hour.
She accompanied her mother in the carriage as far as her own destination. The Countess was on a card-leaving mission in Harley Street, and devoutly hoped that Lady Blank would not be at home.
But let men remember that the "good excuse" must be obvious. Any suspicion of indifference robs the proxy card-leaving of all effect as a compliment. In case a man is legitimately prevented, by business cares, from paying calls or leaving his cards in person, it is proper for his wife or mother or sister, or other near relative, to leave or send his card with her own.
However, either bride or groom gives something to the bridesmaid and a scarf-pin to each usher. Thus a wedding becomes a very expensive and elaborate affair, which quiet and economical people are sometimes obliged to avoid. After the marriage invitations are issued, the lady does not appear in public. The period of card-leaving after a wedding is not yet definitely fixed.
The following instances illustrate the present correct usage in regard to these three ways of leaving cards. After a first hospitality, whether accepted or not. Calls of condolence. After-dinner calls by cards. Alternative. In such cases, when personal card-leaving is impossible, the card is sent by a private messenger, and an explanation, or apology, is sent by note.
This may be called one of the "cards of compliment" a phase of card-leaving to which we have hardly reached in this country. It is even more, it is a heartfelt and friendly blossom of etiquette, "just out," as we say of the apple-blossoms. Now as to the use of it by the afflicted: why would it not be well for persons who have lost a friend also to have such a card engraved? "Mr.
Its very drudgeries had a charm now that she was involuntarily released from them: card-leaving, note-writing, enforced civilities to the dull and elderly, and the smiling endurance of tedious dinners how pleasantly such obligations would have filled the emptiness of her days!
Langton was a little sleepy after a long afternoon of card-leaving and call-paying, but she was sufficiently awake to be gracious when she had quite understood who Mark was. 'So very kind of you to write to my little daughter about such nonsense, she said. 'Of course I don't mean that the story itself was anything of the kind, but little girls have such silly fancies at least mine seem to have.
So the formal visiting gets to be a mere matter of card-leaving; and the witty author who suggested that there should be a "clearing-house for cards," and who hailed the Casino at Newport as a good institution for the same, was not without genius. One hates to lose time in this world while greasing the machinery, and the formal, perfunctory card-leaving is little else.
Two or three more years of diplomacy with her beside him! and then their real life would begin: study, travel and book-making for him, and for her well, the joy, at any rate, of getting out of an atmosphere of bric-a-brac and card-leaving into the open air of competing activities. The desire for change had for some time been latent in him, and his meeting with Mrs.
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