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Updated: June 11, 2025
To-night I heard Grimsby and Hattersley grumbling together about the inhospitality of their host.
"Consider the inhospitality of refusing shelter from the inclemency of the weather to helpless females. Really, my dear sir " But a succession of "Miggles," ending in a burst of laughter, drowned his voice. Yuba Bill hesitated no longer. Taking a heavy stone from the road, he battered down the gate, and with the expressman entered the enclosure. We followed. Nobody was to be seen.
She was far more successful in other respects, having completely banished the spirits of formality and inhospitality that presided in these domains. The house was outside the fort, and had been purchased from a citizen who lived there, totally apart from his race; Mrs.
Here, under my roof, you are safe for the moment; but a prolonged stay excuse my inhospitality could not but strain the harmonious relations which prevail between the Government of Pantouflia and that which I have the honour to represent." "We don't want to fight; and no more, I think, do you," said the prince, smiling. "Then how does your royal highness mean to treat the proclamations?"
Yet the excitement caused by the approach of a pedlar was invincible, even by Madame la Duchess. It was inevitable that the crying need of glove, kerchief, needle, or the like, should be discovered as soon as he came within ken, and, once in the hall, there was no being rid of him except by a flagrant act of inhospitality.
Bannister, then sighingly agreed to send up cold meat for the ladies' dinner. Hence their melancholy inhospitality to their cousin Victor, who had, in spite of his errors, the right to claim his place at their table, was 'of the blood, they said. He was recognized as the living prince of it. His every gesture, every word, recalled the General.
'What is the noise down there? he questioned, looking at the village with that coolness, like indifference, habitual to his face when meeting problems of importance. 'They will not let us touch the water curse their fathers! growled Rashîd. 'Heard anyone the like of such inhospitality? It would but serve them right if we destroyed their houses.
He never knew how near he had been to meeting the direst inhospitality at Mr. Runciman's house. That worthy innkeeper, knowing well the Senator's sympathy with Goarly, Scrobby and Bearside, and being heart and soul devoted to the Rufford interest, had almost refused the Senator the accommodation he wanted. It was only when Mrs.
I deemed their morality sufficiently secured by the absence of foreign intercourse, by their isolated position, and the poverty of the country. No large town there affords opportunity for pomp or gaiety, or for the commission of smaller or greater sins. Rarely does a foreigner enter the island, whose remoteness, severe climate, inhospitality, and poverty, are uninviting.
But it was to the table that my gaze was chiefly drawn, for there, beside the lamp and the book, lay an open basket, from which projected the knuckle-end of a ham, the corner of a loaf of bread, and the black neck of a bottle. If my host had been suspicious and cold at our first meeting he was now atoning for his inhospitality by an overdone cordiality even harder for me to explain.
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