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Denyer returned to the pension, and, when dinnertime approached, surprised Madeline with the proposal that she should come out and dine with him at a restaurant. "The fact is," he whispered to her, with a laugh, "my appearance is not quite up to the standard of your dinner-table. I'm rather too careless about these things; it's doubtful whether I possess a decent suit.
We live very comfortably in our bachelor establishment on a cold shoulder of mutton, with ham and smoked beef and boiled eggs; and as to drinkables, we had both claret and brown sherry on the dinner-table to-day.
Hock, in black, with a white napkin, three footmen, coachman, and a lad whom Mrs. C. had dressed in sugar-loaf buttons and called a page, were seen round the dinner-table, all in white gloves, I promise you I felt a thrill of elation, and thought to myself Sam Cox, Sam Cox, who ever would have expected to see you here?
"The Pink" was Daisy's favorite kitten. Daisy laughed aloud, Jasmine started up briskly from the dinner-table, and Primrose, feeling that she had done well, went into the kitchen to consult with Hannah, the old cook, over the making of the cream-cakes. Miss Martineau was very old-fashioned in her ideas, and she did not much like the look of the bay window.
These young men's eyes were fixed upon Helen as they took their places at the dinner-table, though not altogether, Althea perceived, with admiration. Helen, wherever she was, would always be centre; things and people grouped themselves about her; she made the picture, and she was the focus of interest. Why was it?
Any gentleman propounding a conundrum at the dinner-table deserves to be taken away by the police. To use one's own knife, spoon or fingers, instead of the butterknife, sugar-tongs or salt-spoons, is to persuade the company that you have never seen the latter articles before, and are unacquainted with their use.
"The tents, that I put on the back piazza, are gone," he said. "Where is Webb?" was her quick response. No one had seen him, and it was soon learned that a horse and a strong wagon were also missing. "Ah, Burt," cried Amy, laughing, "rest assured Webb has stolen a march on you, and taken his own way of retaliation for what you said at the dinner-table yesterday. He was away all the afternoon, too.
Ricardo's practice to collect celebrities round his dinner-table, and at one such gathering Hanaud and Wethermill had been present together. "You wish me to approach him?" "At once." "It is a delicate position," said Ricardo. "Here is a man in charge of a case of murder, and we are quietly to go to him " To his relief Wethermill interrupted him.
Much taste and ingenuity are expended on the selection of favors for ladies, and these pretty fancies bonbonnieres, painted ribbons and reticules, and fans covered with flowers add greatly to the elegance and luxury of our modern dinner-table.
If he must show them what was impracticable in their views he did it gently. He rallied them with tenderness. He had none of the mockery which is so searing and blighting a thing to hot youth. One night Mary, looking down the dinner-table, saw a face she remembered.
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