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His name is Sambo, and he comes from Breucklen Heights; he has been practicing a dance with her, and old Jan Steen, the Dutch fiddler, has promised to come and play for them and their friends in the kitchen, and for my part I think there will be more fun there than at Clarissa's card-party don't you? Wake up, Betty; I don't believe you've heard one word I've been saying."
He entered the elevator and shot down to the great rotunda, still scowling over his grievance. For he had made arrangements to join a card-party at Julius Neergard's rooms that night, and he had no intention of foregoing that pleasure just because his sister's first grown-up dinner-party was fixed for the same date.
The noise of a spirited altercation between the servant and some visitor, came from the ante-room. "I tell you that he IS at home," said some one in a panting voice, "and I must see him and speak with him at once. It is such an urgent matter that I left a card-party just at the most critical moment to come here." "I assure you, monsieur, that M. Ferailleur has gone out."
He remembered by the time reflection returned to him that it was Algernon, who had the house at his disposal, probably giving a card-party, or something of the sort. In the morning, too, he remembered that he had divorced the world to wed a System, and must be faithful to that exacting Spouse, who, now alone of things on earth, could fortify and recompense him. Mr.
All this, to a good-looking man of well, considerably over forty, was flattering, but no sinecure. One morning, in the late spring, it came over me unhappily that in a moment of fatal forgetfulness I had promised to be present that evening at a card-party a promise exacted by the "Rogers woman," persona non grata to Prudence.
After dinner they endeavored to organize an impromptu card-party, but that, also, was a failure; and, although, as a rule, they had a little music after dinner, on this particular evening each one seemed indisposed to break the monotony. About ten o'clock William left for his hotel, having first made an appointment with his father for the following morning.
"How industrious you are," cried Kitty, as she bade them all good-day; "the rooms will be a bower of green, such as Captain Yorke tells about. I came, Clarissa, to beg a note of invitation for Peggy Van Dam. She has but just returned from Albany, and will be mightily pleased to be bidden to your card-party."
The peaceful citizens of Newark, returning from dance or card-party even the imminence of war did not wholly stifle their desire for innocent revelry found it embarrassing. Though Van Rensselaer's force now numbered 6,300 men, he was still afraid to attack Brock.
Thursday afternoon, all shyness and importance strangely compounded, Missy carried a note-book to Mrs. Brooks's card-party. It was agreeable to hear Mrs. Brooks effusively explain: "Missy's working on the Beacon now, you know"; and to feel two dozen pairs of eyes upon her as she sat writing down the list of guests; and to be specially led out to view the refreshment-table.
And thus, while Miss Baker was at her old friend's card-party, Miss Waddington sat in her own bedroom, striving, with bitter tears and violent struggles, to reconcile herself to her loss. It has been said that Miss Baker was going to spend the evening with an old friend.
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