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Updated: June 19, 2025
The smell of perspiration was stifling as Stephen pushed up to the master of the situation. "What's that? Supper, young man? Ain't you had no supper? Gosh, I reckon if you can fight your way to the dinin' room, the gals'll give you some pork and a cup of coffee." After a preliminary scuffle with a drunken countryman in mud-caked boots, Mr. Brice presently reached the long table in the dining-room.
I've read about it, but it was a long while ago. Mr. Bangs, I'm dreadfully ignorant, I realize it about once every ten minutes when I'm with you. Perhaps I've got a little excuse this time. I've been figurin' I must buy new curtains for the dinin' room. I was thinkin' about it all this forenoon. And when YOU began to talk about shades and sticks, I Mercy me! I am funny, I declare!"
"Why," said Larry, talking through his nose, as usual, "in Madagasky there, they don't wear any togs at all, nothing but a bowline round the midships; they don't have no dinners, but keeps a dinin' all day off fat pigs and dogs; they don't go to bed any where, but keeps a noddin' all the time; and they gets drunk, too, from some first rate arrack they make from cocoa-nuts; and smokes plenty of 'baccy, too, I tell ye.
They're in the smoke-room, the ladies' boodwor, the lib'ry, the drorin'-room, dinin' saloon, the officers' quarters, and why, some of the men is even down in the stokeholds. Oh yes, we took 'em all aboard, of course. But I expect we shall thin 'em out a good bit presently.
'Yes, marm, I'll 'tend to it. "So he steered the auto into the barn, and Simeon got busy. Judgin' by the sharp language that drifted out through the door, 'twas plain that the shofer was superintendin' all right. "Jonadab heaves in sight, bowin', and makes proclamation that dinner is served. The pair riz up majestic and headed for the dinin' room.
And from all around that dinin' room come a sort of gasp and then the sound of whisperin'. That was the help. "They took a table by the window, which had been made ready. Down they set like a king and a queen perchin' on thrones. One of the waiter girls went over to em. "But I'd come out of my trance a little mite.
I put 'em right here on the dinin' room table, but Miss Martha she carted 'em off upstairs to your bedroom. Said she presumed likely you'd want to open 'em by yourself. I don't see why " "Hush! Hush! Where is ah Miss Phipps?" "She's in the settin' room. Told me not to disturb her, she wanted to be alone. Galusha hastened away, leaving the excited Miss Cash still talking.
"I understood as old Wiggins was made a good deal on in Liverpool as bein' the oldest skipper that had ever come there, and the Board of Trade and what not giv' him dinners, and so on which, considerin' his age, he oughtn't to have took and by other skippers at the hotel he were much honored, bein' giv' the head of the table and treated with great deference and all this dinin' and winin' and feastin' weren't no good to him and, arter a stay of three weeks, when we ag'in went down the river with full complement of passengers and a good freight, he weren't not by no means as well as when we went in.
There was a little business matter the cap'n and I were talkin' about." Galusha hastened to say that he himself had been on the point of going to his own room really he was. Miss Martha asked if he was sure. "You needn't go on our account," she protested. "We can talk in the dinin' room just as well as not, can't we Cap'n Jeth?" The captain bowed his head.
The club-houses and the tailors have done a good deal towards this, and so has whiggism and dissent; for they have destroyed distinctions. "But this is too deep for me. Ask Minister, he will tell you the cause; I only tell you the fact. "Dinin' out here, is both heavy work, and light feedin'. It's monstrous stupid.
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