Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 18, 2025
John's Church, at Longbridge, to offer a couple of seats to the Hubbards, who were set down at the door of their father's old Meeting-house had you seen her of a Sunday, with a neat straw hat, and the black silk gown, you would have been obliged to acknowledge that her dress had the double merit, by no means common, of according with her circumstances, and the sacred duties she was going to fulfil; the devotion of her neighbours would not be disturbed by admiration of her toilette.
It had seemed absurd to invite anybody to meet two such little, unknown people as the Hubbards; and then, to avoid marking them as the subjects of the festivity by the precedence to be observed in going out to supper, she resolved to have tea served in the drawing-room, and to make it literally tea, with bread and butter, and some thin, ascetic cakes. However sharp he was in business, Mr.
Some of the people whom Marcia met at Miss Kingsbury's called; and the Witherbys came, father, mother, and daughter together; but between the evident fact that the Hubbards were poor, and the other evident fact that they moved in the best society, the Witherbys did not quite know what to do about them. They asked them to dinner, and Bartley went alone; Marcia was not well enough to go.
Nevertheless, Harry soon succeeded in obtaining her consent to be married within six weeks; in fact she made but few objections to the arrangement, although she would have preferred waiting longer, on account of the recent afflictions of Jane and the Hubbards. The important day soon arrived, and the wedding took place at Wyllys-Roof.
Congratulate you!" she mocked, with an unsparing laugh. "Such a success! But why didn't you give them something to eat, Clara? Those poor Hubbards have a one-o'clock dinner, and I famished for them. I wasn't hungry myself, we have a two-o'clock dinner!" Bartley came home elate from Miss Kingsbury's entertainment. It was something like the social success which he used to picture to himself.
The flowers ordered in advance by the Woolsey Hubbards' courier made Garnett wonder if that accomplished functionary had also wired over to have Miss Newell's settlements drawn up. But of all the comments hovering on his lips the only one he could decently formulate was the remark that he supposed Mrs.
Sometimes Ethel's relations would come to the bungalow, old Brevald of course, and her mother, but cousins too, vague native women in Mother Hubbards and men and boys in lava-lavas, with their hair dyed red and their bodies elaborately tattooed. He would find them sitting there when he got back from the bank. He laughed indulgently. "Don't let them eat us out of hearth and home," he said.
Josie had been one of those little girls who speak pieces at chicken-pie suppers held in the basement of the Presbyterian church. Her mother had been a silly, idle woman addicted to mother hubbards and paper-backed novels about the house. Her one passion was the theatre, a passion that had very scant opportunity for feeding in Wapello, Iowa.
Those Longbridge Hubbards are enough to spoil a paradise." "Well, Harriet," said Mr. Wyllys, "you seem to have made up your mind; so have I; now what is to be done?" "Of course, sir, your opinion has great weight with me; you know I am always guided by you." "Then the matter is settled, and Evert goes to Hubbard's." Mr.
They're rather particular persons, the Hubbards, fine old Plymouth stock, and all that." "Me too," says I. "I'm just as fussy as the next old Ellis Island stock, remember." "Oh, bother!" says Pinckney. "Will you come up and meet him, or won't you?" It wa'n't reg'lar; but as long as he's a friend of Pinckney's I said I would. And, say, Joshua Q. looks the part, all right.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking