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Updated: September 1, 2025
Societies, clubs, parlor lectures, readings, recitations, musicales, classes it fatigues one to keep in sight of them. Every afternoon, every evening, something. I doubt if men are capable of such incessant energy, Mrs. Fairchild." "And you find they have no time to be agreeable?" "Quite the contrary.
When the point came that their ways parted, he would go his own way; and just there lay the seed of the tragi-comedy. The family gathers about him, and he answers their questions. He will wear the kind of tie that his sister prefers, and they may set any date they please for the musicales at home.
Thus he soon found himself involved in a round of sociables, musicales, and now and then a large party. Christine was usually present, radiant, brilliant, the cynosure of all eyes, but ever coolly self-possessed.
His dinners in town, followed by exquisite musicales, were the social events of every season. He was, however, most attractive at his superb place in the country. A week-end with him there met the best traditions of English hospitality. In the party were sure to be men and women of distinction, and just the ones whom an American had read about and was anxious to meet.
Crug bustled in a short, thick-set, rosy-cheeked young fellow in a black mackintosh and a white silk muffler a 'cellist of repute, who had spent two years at the conservatoire, and who had once played for Eugenie at one of her musicales at the Tuileries, a fact he never let you forget.
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