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Up to the former hours you may gain admission to your own house by feeing the porter to the extent of twopence; but, later than this, it is dangerous to try the experiment. To return to out-of-door amusements.
There was no hint of his condition or the object of his journey, no appeal to confraternity with a view to getting bed and breakfast at trade prices, or some reduction on the table d'hôte charges. He travelled as a sort of Haroun al Raschid among innkeepers, haughtily paying his bills, and possibly feeing the waiters.
She jumped up like a flash, and her face was quite red. "No, indeed! Not on my account certainly." She emphasized the my so distinctly that I was sure she suspected. That dreadful thought caused me to stiffen my manner, and as hers had been strangely stiff all the afternoon, we were awfully polite to each other during supper. Each of us insisted upon paying the bill and feeing the waiter.
"Assure yourself, gentle reader," he says, "I had not published my project in this pamphlet, could I have got it inserted in any of the journals without feeing the journalists or publishers. I cannot but have the vanity to think they might as well have inserted what I send them, gratis, as many things I have since seen in their papers.
And found Graham's eyes on her, studying her. "You don't want her. That's plain. But you do want her. That's not so plain. What's the answer, mother?" And Natalie, with an irritable feeing that she had bungled somehow, got up and flung away the cigaret. "I am trying to give you what you want," she said pettishly. "That's clear enough, I should think." "There's no other reason?"
"No, we had the whole midnight hour to ourselves. The porter's work with the baggage was all over, and there was nothing to interrupt the delightful chat we fell into. He is a very intelligent man, and he told me all about that custom of feeing which you deprecate.
But the lover of comfort will always cheerfully pay for a little extra civility; nor do I think that this practice any more than that of feeing our railway porters is a public disadvantage. The waiter does not know till the guest goes whether he is a person of inflexible principles or not, and, therefore, hope ameliorates his manners and shapes his actions to all.
When we borrowed the feeing fashion from Europe a dozen years ago, the salary system ought to have been discontinued, of course. We might make this correction now, I should think. And we might add the portier, too.
She had talked to him at the telephone in the lower hall, which was enclosed, and where one might be confidential without feeing overheard. She sat very still for a few moments in the little booth, thinking; then she rose and went upstairs. The General was awake and eager. "Shall I read to you?" Hilda asked. "No, I'd rather talk." She shaded the light and sat beside the little table.
Besides all this, he reflected, that as it was of consequence he should reach the Lord Boyd in secrecy, he would be more likely to do so by stopping at Kilwinning and feeing someone there to guide him to the Dean Castle by moonlight.
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