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Other carriages followed in due course, for there was an illustrious house-party at Deadborough Hall the owner of which was not only a slayer of pheasants, but a reader of books and a student of things. He had gathered together the Bishop of the Diocese, a Cabinet Minister, two eminent philosophers, the American Ambassador, a leading historian, and a Writer on the Mystics.
You know Manorwater, don't you, George?" said the lady to her husband, with the boldness which comes from the use of a peer's name without the handle. "Oh yes, I know him well. I have met him at the Liberal Club dinners, and I was his chairman once when he spoke on Irish affairs. A delightful man!" "I suppose they would have a pleasant house-party when you were here, my dear?" asked the lady.
He found Captain Travers a laughing, rollicking, fun-loving type of man at least, to all outward appearances who seemed to delight in sports and games and to have an almost childish love of card tricks and that species of entertainment which is known as parlour magic. He found the three other members of the little house-party to wit: Mrs. Somerby-Miles, Lieutenant Forshay, and Mr.
The ten years' difference between Cherry and Martin distressed him; he spoke of it again and again. In June he sent Cherry to a long-planned house-party at Menlo Park, but the girl came back after the third day. "I didn't have any fun," she confessed, "I had to tell Olive, about me and Martin, I mean. The boys there were all KIDS!"
Bolling had invited a house-party comprised of the associated parents as a part of her policy of kindness before the actual summoning of her forces for the campaign she was about to inaugurate. David was really touched by his mother's generosity concerning Eleanor. He had been agreeably surprised at the development of the situation between the child and his mother.
You know he has always been interested in you ever since Joyce came back from the first house-party and told us about you." That Betty blushed when Mary proceeded to further confessions and quoted Jack's remarks about her picture is not to be wondered at, and that Mary should see the blush and promptly report it in her next letter to Jack was quite as inevitable.
It is the fault of any house-party. People see too much of each other. I am glad I am going away to-morrow, and you'll be glad. And when we have been separated a month, you will rush up to see me, and say you couldn't live without me." She dissected him coolly. Madge had a modern way of looking at things. She was not in the least sentimental. But she had big moments of feeling.
I determined to go down alone, to shoot zealously from early in the morning till late at night, but to have no house-party at Feltham, to invite a few of the neighbors, and to be free myself to depart for London any time, at a moment's notice. It would come! somehow or other I felt sure of it. I should receive a summons from her, and I must be prepared at any moment to come to her aid.
He had wild thoughts of telegraphing to London for something to be sent down, and spoke to other members of the house-party in order to discover what sort of presents would be suitable. "What are you giving our host P" he asked one of them. "Mary and I are giving him a book," said John, referring to his wife.
And then, you know, there is no great ceremony at this bungalow of a place; it's different at the Braes, if Lady Adela happens to have a large house-party then I have to behave like other folk. What do you say, Robert seven pounds? Well, he made a good fight of it. And I'm glad not to be going home empty-handed."
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