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'No; he went round that way, and sent Brown home. He said he should be here by dinner-time, but it is very late. Is it not a strange proceeding of hers, to be sending him about the country! 'I don't understand it. Where's Brown? 'Here's a fly coming up the avenue. He is come at last.
Rorie roused himself with a great effort. "Unless Starlight Bess spins me along the road pretty quickly, I shall hardly get to Briarwood by dinner-time," he said; "and upon my honour, I don't feel the least inclination to go." "Oh, what fun if you were absent at your coming-of-age dinner!" cried Vixen, with her brown eyes dancing mischievously.
When dinner-time came, she sat down to the wing of a cold chicken and a thimbleful of claret much diluted; the repast was laid out with perfection of neatness, and at its conclusion she cleared the table like the handiest of parlour-maids.
The Canon showed him the town all over again all morning. And in the afternoon Mrs. Thesiger showed him the Cathedral all over again; and took him with her to the service. And all dinner-time Jevons was very pensive and subdued. After dinner the Canon talked to Jevons about his novel. And Jevons was more pensive than ever. He said, "Well that's a question "
And should this work fall on me, broken down in spirits and energy, with these long-standing habits of solitude and silence? If Helen was but here! He was relieved by Violet's reappearance at dinner-time, full of smiles, proud of Johnnie's having slept half the morning, and delighted with "Mary Barton", which, on his system of diversion for her mind, he had placed in her way.
He was a very silent and reserved man, and had never complained, so that I was deeply shocked on his sending for me at dinner-time, to find that he was dying. "He asked me not to deceive him, but to tell him if there was any truth in what the gaol-chaplain had said, about there being another life after death.
He kept on going into the library to look at the war-map and Papa kept on turning him out again. He was in a sort of mysterious disgrace because of Sedan. Roddy was excited about Sedan. Dan followed Mark as he went in and out; he was furious with Papa because of Mark. Mamma had been a long time in the library talking to Papa. They sent for Mark just before dinner-time.
The detectives, with the fine instinct peculiar to their profession, rightly construed the colonel's action as a hint, and withdrew, and Jim retired to his own hut, and fell asleep while waiting for his partner. Morning came, but no Tarpaulin; dinner-time arrived, but Jim ate alone, and was rather blue. He loved a sociable chat, and of late Tarpaulin had been almost his sole companion.
I shouldn't have decided it, if I didn't know it was right. I've a long and difficult day before me. You just hop into the gig, and Tom'll drive you round to see Mrs. Norton or anybody else. Only let me hear by dinner-time that the arrangement is made." "You shall," said Mavis cheerfully. "Thank you, Mav. You're always a trump. You never fail one."
"I should think your ears must have burned this dinner-time." "Why, now?" inquired Brent. "Uncle Simon brought Mallet and Coppinger home to dinner," continued Queenie. "It was lucky there was a big hot joint! they're all great eaters and drinkers. And they abused you to their hearts' content. This Town Council business they say it's infernal impudence for you to put up for election.
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