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Updated: May 21, 2025
Not that it really matters nowadays, as I told her: I know some perfectly virtuous people who are received everywhere. The drawback is, one never really knows one's hosts and hostesses.
We had come to the house of Major Ragstaff's daughter, the Marchioness of Ireton, one of society's most celebrated and beautiful hostesses! the wife of a peer famed alike as sportsman, soldier, and scholar. "I believe she is dining at home, sir," said the man. "Shall I inquire?" "Be good enough to do so," replied Harley, and gave him a card.
In the character of hosts and hostesses they excel. The 'new chum' needs only the acquaintanceship of one of their number, and he becomes at once the happy recipient of numerous complimentary invitations and thoughtful kindnesses. Of the towns it has been our good fortune to visit, none have portrayed home so faithfully as Sydney." Nobody could say it finer than that.
In other words, should we hold ourselves aloof, live contrary to the customs of the country and mortally offend our hosts, to say nothing of our hostesses, or should we fulfil our destinies, take unto ourselves island brides and eat our equatorial fruit, core and all? For the purpose of discussion Whinney was designated to uphold the negative, and for an hour we argued the matter pro and con.
To prove his politeness, for instance, he insisted upon his hostesses having second helps to every dish, offered to answer the telephone whenever it rang, and even obligingly started to answer the door-bell during the salad course. That dinner was but the initiation into a week of difficult adjustments.
This reference to the two hostesses of Muiden calls attention to one of the noteworthy features of social life in the Holland of this period namely, the high level of education among women belonging to the upper burgher-class. Anna and Maria Tesselschade Visscher, and Anna Maria Schuurman may be taken as examples.
And yet it is done so often, by hostesses who think that they are following the dictates of etiquette to the highest letter of its law! If the performers are friends of the hostess she should present each one with a gift of some sort as an expression of her gratitude for their services. The lighter music should always be played first, retaining the important numbers for the end.
I burst into flattering notoriety. What had before been slow and difficult sailing for Edith and me now became as swift and easy as if we had added an auxiliary engine to our little boat. We found ourselves receiving invitations from hostesses who before had been impregnable. Extended hands greeted us kindness, cordiality. Finally the proud day arrived when I was invited to Grassmere as a guest.
Novelty established them as temporary belles; they were petted by their hostesses, attended by small cohorts of admirers, and formed the centre for a round of festivities specially arranged to enliven their visits. Delia Vanuxem bore away the palm from all such visitors past or to come.
Dame Honeyball was a likely, plump, bustling little woman, and no bad substitute for that paragon of hostesses, Dame Quickly. She seemed delighted with an opportunity to oblige, and, hurrying upstairs to the archives of her house, where the precious vessels of the parish club were deposited, she returned, smiling and courtesying, with them in her hands.
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