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Updated: June 19, 2025
Side by side with the finest passenger coaches that London sends stands the Canadian Pacific, with its dinin' and sleepin' cars, and you can form an idee about the richness on 'em when I tell you that the woodwork of 'em is pure mahogany. And then the other big railroads, not to be outdone, they have their finest and most elegant cars on show
At this moment his soliloquy was interrupted by a knock at the door, and Nora's announcement: "Please, sur, breakfast is waitin' fer yo' in de dinin' room." "Thank you, Nora, I shall be down presently." And he descended the stairs without loss of time. You ask, reader, what were the thoughts of Miss Viola when she awoke from her deep sleep? As the writer is a man he cannot tell.
I'll spread your grub in the camp-house, t'other side the corral, an' you-all can then be as sociable an' smoky as you please. Which you'll be alone over thar, an' can conduct the reepast in any fashion to suit yourse'fs. But you don't get into the dinin' room reg'lar, an' go to weedin' out my boarders accidental, with them feuds of yours.
"Well," said old Jasper, "the women folks are out there in the dinin' room a fussin' around, and I reckon they'll take the time to answer for themselves, jest as I am agoin' to answer for myself, when I say that I'm obleeged to you, but I can't come. I'm talkin' for myself, recollect," he added, with emphasis, nodding his head and running his fingers through his rim of gray beard.
'You're goin' to take me out, she says, an' we formed a procession an' marched out to the dinin' room. 'You're to sit by mammer, she says, showin' me, an' there was my name on a card, sure enough. Wa'al, sir, that table was a show! I couldn't begin to describe it to ye.
Well, bring him into the dinin' room and tell him I'll be right there. Humph!" she added, after Primmie had departed, "I wonder what Raish Pulcifer wants to see me about. I can't imagine, but I guess it isn't likely to be very important. I'll be back in a few minutes, Mr. Bangs."
Then with a last final swing and flourish, everybody scattered for homeward ways, glad of the day's pleasure and tired enough to be glad also it was ended. The most special of occasions was a dining. Not upon any high day or holiday, such as Christmas, New Year, Jackson's Day the eighth of January Easter nor Whit-Monday, but as Mammy said: "A dinin' des, dry so."
His next move is to call in an architect, and inside of a month a young army of laborers was layin' the foundations for what looked like a city hall, but was really meant to be Riggsmere Manor, with 78 rooms, 23 baths, four towers, and a dinin' room 65 feet long and a ceiling 16 feet in the clear. Then the slump came. I forget whether it was a new hero, or another submarine raid.
That's how he skeert the widder the other day." The doctor was alert and on fire at once. "Scared the widow?" he repeated indignantly. "Yes. You know how she swooned away. Well, sir, me and that preacher, Brown, was the only one in that dinin' room at the time.
I had dem sandwiches all made an' on a plate. I left dem in de dinin' room to go git a basket, an' when I come back, dey was gone entirely. I want t' see yo' ma, Missie Nan. I ain't gwing t' stay on dish yeah boat no mo, dat's what I ain't!" "But why not, Dinah?" asked Nan, in some alarm. "Because dey's ghostests on dish yeah boat; dat's what dey is! An' I ain't gwine stay on no ha'nted boat.
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