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She was wearing the dress she had worn the day before at the matinee a very smart light green dress covered with lace, but crushed and put on carelessly and with haste. Suddenly noticing that some of the hooks were undone in front she flushed, hurriedly set it right, snatched up from a chair the red shawl she had flung down when she came in the day before, and put it round her neck.
Because Peggy and Keineth had recently attended a matinee performance of "The Midsummer Night's Dream," sitting in a box and wearing the new pink dresses, Billy and Alice conceded that they knew more about plays and must manage this. There were hours and hours then spent behind locked doors and Mrs. Lee could hear shrieks of laughter with Peggy's voice rising sternly above it.
And he wrung her hand and, talking incoherently, he rushed from the room and from the house. He went straight home and sought his sister. She had that moment come in from tea after a matinee. She talked about the play how badly it was acted and about the women she had seen at tea how badly dressed they were.
Lily Dallam was almost sure to be out, or going out immediately, and seemed to have more engagements than any one in New York. "I'm so sorry, my dear," she would say, and add reproachfully: "why didn't you telephone me you were coming? If you had only let me know we might have lunched together or gone to the matinee. Now I have promised Clara Trowbridge to go to a lunch party at her house." Mrs.
"The room won't hold half of them." "If we have to, we'll give a double performance," said Dave. "We want everybody to get his money's worth." And then it was arranged that tickets should be good for either the "matinée" or the night performance. The first performance was given in the afternoon and lasted from three to half-past five o'clock.
You can ride three miles on the trolley car to the Stock Yards every morning and find happiness at the end of the trip, but you may chase it all over the world in a steam yacht without catching up with it. A woman can find fun from the basement to the nursery of her own house, but give her a license to gad the streets and a bunch of matinée tickets and shell find discontent.
It had never, however, appeared on the playbills of the theatres; except once, when, at a benefit matinée, the great John Pilgrim, whom to mention is to worship, had recited verses specially composed for the occasion by Alfred Doxey. 'And the signature, dear? Geraldine glanced up at her husband, offering him a suggestion humbly, as a wife should in the presence of third parties.
It was eleven o'clock when I reached the entrance of the marshal's house, where the same White Hall in which the matinee had taken place had, in spite of the short interval between, been cleared and made ready to serve as the chief ballroom for the whole town, as we expected, to dance in.
She told me she was coming out on the earlier train." "She may have met someone and gone to the matinee. It's Wednesday." "She didn't need to do that. I'll take her whenever she wants to go and she knows it." "I didn't say she had gone I only said she might have gone.
I have a little plan about that. One, luncheon. Two o'clock, matinee or something; haven't planned that yet. Five, meet Aunt Lucinda and the girls from Woodford. Eight, theatre " "Mercy, Blue Bonnet, what a mad scramble! And after a five days' journey across the continent I should think your uncle would be dead!" "I hadn't thought of that," Blue Bonnet said, contritely.
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