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A subscription of half a crown per quarter entitles you to go without ninety-two luncheons." "This must be something new," exclaimed Tarrington. "It's the same aunt that I've always had," said Clovis coldly. "I perfectly well remember meeting you at a luncheon-party given by your aunt," persisted Tarrington, who was beginning to flush an unhealthy shade of mottled pink.
The judge-advocate now invited him to turn his memory back to the luncheon-party at Sir Terence's on the 27th, and to tell the court of the altercation that had passed on that occasion between Captain Tremayne and Count Samoval.
Hunterleys leaned suddenly forward across the little round table. "The question of whether or no you shall pay your respects to Monsieur Douaille," he remarked, "is solved. Unless I am very much mistaken, we are going to have an exceedingly interesting luncheon-party on our right." "Monsieur Douaille " Mr. Simpson began, a little eagerly. "And the others," Hunterleys interrupted.
"But you didn't like the prospect of going?" said Rose. "No," said Father Payne, "I shrank from the strain you phlegmatic, aristocratic people, men-of-the-world, blasés, highly-born and highly-placed, have no conception of the strain these things are on a child of nature. You are used to such things, Rose, no doubt you do not anticipate a luncheon-party with a mixture of curiosity and gloom.
"Tony, old son," said Robin, "I won't lunch with you even to set the board in a roar at your aunt's luncheon-party. But I'll walk up to Mart's with you, for I'm going there myself ..." They entered Mart's together and parted in the vestibule, where Tony gravely informed his "dear old scream" that he must fly to his "avuncular luncheon."
Manly had jumped together; a new hat and an old skirt that she had lately done up came in for a passing remark, and, with an abundance of laughter, May gave an account of a luncheon-party at Lord Rosshill's; and, apparently verbatim, she told what each of the five Honourable Miss Gores had said about the marriage.
'I dare say she'll tell me. At least she'll ask me if I think so or not. 'Si elle te demande, tu diras que tu n'en sais rien! Well, I think.... 'What? 'You must wait. Wait and see. Really, it's impossible, my dear child, for you to accept an invitation for an elopement as if it were a luncheon-party. Not only that, it's good for Aylmer to be kept in doubt. Excellent for his health. 'Really?
Now, you will see how the novelty of this luncheon-party in an inn will amuse her; but do you think she would care for it if she and I were here alone?" "Perhaps you never tried?" Miss Wenna said gently. "Perhaps I knew she wouldn't come. However, don't let's have a fight, Wenna: I mean to be very civil to you to-day I do, really." "I am so much obliged to you," she said meekly.
A luncheon-party returns upon me in Brasenose where the brilliant Merton Fellow and tutor, already a power in Oxford, first met his future wife; afterward, their earliest married home in Oxford so near to ours, in the new region of the Parks; then the Vicarage on the Northumberland coast where Creighton wrestled with the north-country folk, with their virtues and their vices, drinking deep draughts thereby from the sources of human nature; where he read and wrote history, preparing for his magnum opus, the history of the Renaissance Popes; where he entertained his friends, brought up his children, and took mighty walks always the same restless, energetic, practical, pondering spirit, his mind set upon the Kingdom of God, and convinced that in and through the English Church a man might strive for the Kingdom as faithfully and honestly as anywhere else.
But why did she leave us to find it out through the Rectory? She never says anything about herself that she can help. Do you think you'll really get to France in January? Ever your loving It was a bright January day. Lunch was just over at Mannering, and the luncheon-party had dispersed attracted to the garden and the park by the lure of the sunshine after dark days of storm and wind. Mrs.
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