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Higginson, learning somehow that I expected to fly off immediately after the lunch-party, first tries to break up the party, and failing that, he bribes Ferguson to break up the machinery. Thus he hopes to make it impossible for me to get away me whom he needs in his business as the red rag for his little old mob."
"My dear Betty, don't be absurd," protested Milly; "I've got some people lunching with me at the Carlton to-morrow, and I'm leaving Town the day afterwards." "What time is your lunch to-morrow?" asked Lady Drakmanton reflectively. "Two o'clock," said Milly. "Good," said her sister; "the Smithly-Dubbs shall lunch with me to-morrow. It shall be rather an amusing lunch-party.
Port had given a lunch-party to which these same Philadelphians were invited; and his niece had informed him, when the festivity was at an end, that if he did anything like that again she certainly would either run away or drown herself. Any trials in this world or any dangers in the next, she declared, were preferable to sitting opposite to such a person as Mrs.
I'm not in the habit of beating women at any time, let alone at a lunch-party." "I mean what I say: you're not to touch either of them. If you do you'll spoil it. You're to go for Miss Bussey." "She's not done me any harm." "Never mind. As soon as the row begins and I say, 'Save the ladies! you collar Miss Bussey. See?" "Oh, I see. Seems to me we're going to have a lively lunch.
I hope she'll sleep now till just time to get up and dress for Marietta's lunch-party at one o'clock." The father of the family frowned. "Is Marietta giving another lunch-party for Lydia? They can't afford to do so much. Marietta's " "This is a great chance for Marietta poor girl! she hasn't many such chances Lydia's carrying everything before her so, I mean."
He was rather surprised at Peter's quickness, in view of the fact that he knew nothing of the episode of the morning. "Yes," he said. "That's the man." He told concisely of Mr. Higginson's attempt to break up the lunch-party by keeping the guest of honor away. Peter's face, as he listened, underwent a curious change.
Farquhar, there is a time for everything; and if you think that a lunch-party on the river in the middle of the season is a suitable occasion for discussing Lord Stonebridge's pecuniary difficulties, or solving Lady Silverhampton's religious doubts, I can only say that I don't."
And here was the token of the more cheerful atmosphere prevailing this morning in the house. Mrs. Heth was entertaining a lunch-party of seven ladies, her contemporaries, at two o'clock this day. True, the invitations had been issued before the crash: but the hopeful point, as even the servants were aware, was that they had not been recalled.
Miss Honora had told us to decline, if she asked us to stay; but I should have liked to see her sit at the head of her table, and to be a guest at such a lunch-party. Poor creature! it was a blessed thing that her shattered reason made her unconscious of the change in her fortunes, and incapable of comparing the end of her life with its beginning.
You see, since South Africa nobody's afraid of them except the Porsslanese, and they don't read the papers. And how the Anglians despise the Franks! Why, we were discussing lying in war at a lunch-party, and one of their generals was there, a rather dense sort of a machine of a man.
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