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Updated: September 13, 2025
Bainbridge did not desire to bring the Teesdales' house-party into the newspapers, and, moreover, both he and his wife were confident that young Otley was the thief. Peggy hearing her lover denounced so openly, was naturally full of indignation, though she hardly dared show it.
"Not a word," I replied, wondering why the person in question had been enticed into the spider's parlor. No doubt the highly respectable house-party had been invited to form a suitable setting for some secret villainy.
It was the first time for four years she had been guilty of such an indiscretion, she was shortly afterward explaining to various members of the Musgraves' house-party. It was the heat, no doubt. But since everybody insisted upon it, she would very willingly toast them in another bumper of aromatic spirits of ammonia. "Just look at that, Rudolph! you've spilt it all over your coat sleeve.
Jim was taken aback at her failure to glow with his success; and when she said, "I hate to leave momma and poppa," he writhed. He had neither the courage nor the inclination to invite them to come along and make a jolly house-party.
And then, as she began pouring out a cup of tea for the man who was now looking at her with a dismayed, surprised expression on his face, she went on composedly: "It would be rather amusing if two engagements were to come out of your house-party, Lionel wouldn't it?" But he answered at once, in a harsh, decided tone, "I think you're quite mistaken, Blanche.
When Malcourt arrived at Luckless Lake Sunday evening he found Portlaw hunched up in an arm-chair, all alone in the living-room, although the hour was still early. "Where's your very agreeable house-party?" he inquired, looking about the empty room and hall with an air of troubled surprise. "Gone to bed," replied Portlaw irritably, "what's left of 'em." And he continued reading "The Pink 'Un."
But hardly had she left the room, when my heart was in my mouth again, and I was trembling with fear lest she should take me at my word and then the last of my friends would be gone. Within the next few days the house-party arrived. There would be twenty of them at least, not counting valets and ladies' maids, so that large as Castle Raa was the house was full.
He explained that he was in La Chance for a day on his way from Washington to Mercerton, where the Fiske family was collecting for its annual Christmas house-party, and had dropped in on Mrs. Draper quite unexpectedly.
While here we got telegrams telling us of the assembling of our friends at a house-party at a château in the south of France which once had belonged to Charles VII. So without waiting for anything more we wired a joyful acceptance and set out. We did, however, stop over a few hours at Blois, in order to see the château there.
And, God help him! tired out, half frozen and very foot-sore, he was getting somewhere, for, glancing up, he again beheld the gigantic and demoniac shape of the blasted pine. It is on prairies and among mountains, far from the habitations of men, that man is most readily terrified before nature, and not on the three-mile primrose way from a railway accident to a house-party.
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