dinner-ticket

Updated: May 25, 2025

"What else could you expect for a man of aspirations?" "By thunder, Humphrey, that's not bad. But do you see, by yon clock, that the dinner-hour approacheth?" The Colonel took from his waistcoat-pocket two bits of paper. "Somehow, I miss Irving to-day. There's nothing Irving enjoyed so much as a free dinner-ticket. I see the X. Y. Z.'s are to entertain us at 1 P.M., and the K. R. G.'s at 4."

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches