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But he still goes with the old crowd I don't believe there is a politician or a sporting-man in town that Johnny Price does not know. He sits in their haunts and talks with them until all sorts of hours in the morning, but I can never get him to come to my dinner-parties.
They are gay in their clothing, taking well their ease, leaving house-work to the servant-maids, and are fond of sitting, finely-dressed, before their doors to see the passers-by and to be seen of them. In all banquets and dinner-parties they have the most honour, sitting at the upper end of the board, and being served first.
The Agent then, through his subordinates, engages to provide gentlemen who are about to give dinner-parties "1. With cooks to dress the dinners; a list of which gentlemen he has by him, and will recommend none who are not worthy of the strictest confidence. With a menu for the table, according to the price which the Amphitryon chooses to incur.
And after that she drew a quick breath as if to have done with these sad matters, and she turned her eyes once more toward the broad room where the other guests stood in little groups, all talking at once, very rapidly and in loud voices. "What extraordinarily cosmopolitan affairs these dinner-parties in new Paris are!" she said.
Gracious! when she saw that table sparkling with silver, the covers to the dishes and the chandeliers all glittering like a jewel-case, didn't she go off like soda-water and fire her shot: 'When people spend the money of others they should be sober and not give dinner-parties.
We have to think for a moment only to satisfy ourselves that the wine-and brandy-drinking into which men and women are enticed at dinner-parties and fashionable entertainments is a fruitful source of evil.
"Very truly yours, "R. DORSET." "Anne makes me open my letter to say that Ursula must come too. We will send a carriage to meet you at the station." This letter caused considerable excitement in the Parsonage. It was the first invitation to dinner which Ursula had ever received. The dinner-parties in Carlingford were little frequented by young ladies.
Isn't he there at Mount Music all day and every day, at their tea-parties and their dinner-parties? Won't they have him married up to one of the daughters before you can look around? He may call himself a Catholic, but them English Catholics COME IN!"
And the dancing, the visits and dinner-parties, the keeping up of a brave social show quite necessary and right under the circumstances! began to seem to me, after only twenty-four hours, like some pageant seen under a thunder-cloud. Mr. Forster had then little more than five years to live. He was on the threshold of the second year of his Chief-Secretary ship.
"The first evening you told me, Katharine. Oh, and thousands of times dinner-parties talking about books the way he came into the room your voice when you spoke of him." Katharine seemed to consider each of these proofs separately. Then she said gravely: "I'm not going to marry William. And then there's Cassandra " "Yes, there's Cassandra," said Mrs. Hilbery.
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