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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.
Her dinner-parties, of which each was built up from foundation to climax with the most delicate skill and unity of plan; her pretty dresses, in which she trailed about her soft-coloured rooms; her energy, her kindliness, and even the evident but quite innocent pursuit of social perfection in which she delighted all made her popular; and it was not difficult for her to gather together whom she would when she wished to launch a social novelty.
I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
You would say that it will not be any solid consolation to the widow, when the husband is fairly worried into his grave at last, when his daughters have to go out as governesses, and she has to let lodgings, to reflect that while he lived they never failed to have Champagne at his dinner-parties; and that they had three men to wait at table on such occasions, while Mr.
He himself enjoyed the good things of this world and liked to let it be known that he did so. He cordially despised any brother rector who thought harm of dinner-parties, or dreaded the dangers of a moderate claret-jug; consequently, dinner-parties and claret-jugs were common in the diocese.
As I considered that wine was most dangerous, I presumed that my system still contained many unassimilated substances which I had absorbed at various dinner-parties at Sulzer's, and which must evaporate in profuse perspiration.
What do you think of that? If I were a friend of his an intimate friend I should warn him. For what will the end be he'll marry a rich woman, a woman of fashion, and cease to be anybody. Fancy a man's ruining his career giving up his position, his reputation becoming nobody at all in order to have splendid horses and give big dinner-parties!
Campion, too, has married and married the last woman in the world to whom one would have thought of mating him a frivolous butterfly of a creature who drags him to dinner-parties and Ascot and suppers at the Savoy, and holds Barbara's Building and all it connotes in vixenish detestation.
I didn't think we should see you to-night, Granger; you said you were going to a dinner at Sir Archer Taverham's." "I was engaged to dine with Sir Archer; but I wrote him a note this morning, excusing myself upon the plea of gout. I really had a few twinges last night, and I hate dinner-parties." "I am glad you have so much wisdom.
They organized grand dinner-parties, excursions on the water, fireworks. From day to day Risler's position became more absurd, more distressing. When he came home in the evening, tired out, shabbily dressed, he must hurry up to his room to dress. "We have some people to dinner," his wife would say. "Make haste."
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