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"We have had two or three dinner-parties, but the people who came were friends of mine two or three girls whom I knew at school, who are now married and live in London." "A lonely sort of man!" commented Mr. Pawle. "Yet he must have known people. Where did he go when he went into the City? Where did he go at night? There must be somebody somewhere who can tell more about him.
Tea, followed by a bridge-party, was, in summer, the chief manifestation of the spirit of hospitality in Tilling. Mrs. Poppit, it is true, had attempted to do something in the way of dinner-parties, but though she was at liberty to give as many dinner-parties as she pleased, nobody else had followed her ostentatious example.
He gave bachelor dinner-parties to hard-drinking young men, for whom Anty was well contented to cook; and when they as they often, from the effect of their potations, were perforce obliged to do stayed the night at Dunmore House, Anty never showed herself in the breakfast parlour, but boiled the eggs, made the tea, and took her own breakfast in the kitchen.
Then he bought a great sponge and two stuffed birds and took them to lodgings, where he led for a while a shady existence. Next he moved to a big house in Mayfair, and gave grand dinner-parties, with splendid service and costly wines. His amorous adventures in this region I pass over.
Crewe, with characteristic promptitude, set his secretary to work to make a list of the persons of influence in the town, preparatory to a series of dinner-parties; he dropped into the office of Mr.
'It is a little sad for you to be left, night after night, just at this time when all the world is so gay. But we shall be having our dinner-parties soon as soon as Henry comes back from circuit and then there will be a little pleasant variety for you. No wonder it is moped, poor darling! Margaret did not feel as if the dinner-parties would be a panacea.
"You will find her at the tea-table, when we return to the drawing-room. Girls are out of place at dinner-parties." So he answered me not very graciously. As I stepped out on the landing, I looked up; I don't know why, unless I was the unconscious object of magnetic attraction. Anyhow, I had my reward.
But both saw that they would have to go through with it now. "Good man," said Rudd, not to be outdone. "I wanted someone to go with me; rather lonely these little excursions without company." He spoke with the air of one who spent every other night giving dinner-parties at the Eversham Tap. "Look here, now," broke in Mansell, "don't make bloody fools of yourselves.
Why, I didn't even know what marriage meant!" "Can that be true?" I asked. "All my life I had thought of marriage, in a way; I had been trained to think of it with every eligible man I met but to me it meant a home, a place of my own to entertain people in. I pictured myself going driving with my husband, giving dinner-parties to his friends.
They were made honorary members of a club equal to any in London, and balls, dinner-parties, and picnics were got up for their entertainment.
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