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He gave to Una all he had over from his diversions; urged her to buy clothes and go to matinées while he was away, and told it as a good joke that he "blew himself" so extensively on their parties that he often had to take day-coaches instead of sleepers for a week after he left New York.... Una had no notion of how much money he made, but she knew that he never saved it.
I came of my own accord because I felt my place was here. So I go round to needlework parties and sewing bees and Red Cross matinées and try to be civil to the German women and listen to their boasting and bragging about their army, their hypocrisy about Belgium, their vilification of the best friends Daddy and I ever had, you English!
"In an impudent Pamphlet, forged by I know not whom, and published in 1766, under the title of Matinees du Roi de Prusse, purporting to be 'Morning Conversations' of Frederick the Great with his Nephew the Heir-Apparent, every line of which betrays itself as false and spurious to a reader who has made any direct or effectual study of Frederick or his manners or affairs, it is set forth, in the way of exordium to these pretended royal confessions, that 'notre maison, our Family of Hohenzollern, ever since the first origin of it among the Swabian mountains, or its first descent therefrom into the Castle and Imperial Wardenship of Nurnberg, some six hundred years ago or more, has consistently travelled one road, and this a very notable one.
No cars to catch, no matinees, no city streets, none of the teeming, empty, energy-consuming occupations of the city child. Little that is competitive, much that is unconsciously absorbed at the most impressionable period, long evenings for reading, long afternoons in the fields or woods.
"Well," he replied evasively, "I I've been told so, and wished to know whether it was a fact. You and he were friends, eh?" he asked after a pause. For a moment the girl did not reply. A flood of sad memories swept through her mind at the mention of Harry Bellairs. "Yes," she replied, "we were great friends. He took me to concerts and matinées in town sometimes.
"Well, say did you ever have a brick house fall on you? well, that's just the way it feels just like when they're digging you out of the ruins. Jack's got a left that spells two matinees and a new pair of Oxfords and his right! well, it takes a trip to Coney and six pairs of openwork, silk lisle threads to make that good." "But what does he beat you for?" inquired Mrs. Fink, with wide-open eyes.
Those traits began to come to the surface in 1922, when he had been bossing the Philadelphia band for ten years. About that time he seemed no longer satisfied with merely playing to his audiences he started talking to them. The old society gals went to the Friday matinees because it was the thing to do.
The street was one of the great arteries of travel between the business and the residence portions of the city, and its cable-cars were frequented by ladies going to their shopping or downtown marketing or to and from the matinées. Acquaintances of Vandover were almost sure to pass at every hour. He took rooms temporarily at the Palace and at once set about locating on Sutter Street.
PARTIES in the city comprise conversaziones, private concerts, private theatricals, soirees, dramatic readings, tea-parties, matinees fact, almost any in-door gathering together of people, exclusive of balls and dinner companies.
"I hope so," said Sylvia; "then after that I'm going to teach." "Poor pay and hard work. I know lots of teachers; they're always having nervous prostration. But you look healthy." "Oh, I'm strong enough," replied Sylvia. "I think I should like teaching." "Marian was at Miss Waring's school last winter and I couldn't see what she was interested in much but chasing to matinées.
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