Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 24, 2025
I was only just wondering. Now then, Lake, you'll be late if you loiter any longer, and our er friends will be waiting. Good-bye, Sir Nigel, and good luck. Lunch at one-fifteen, I take it?" He swung upon his heel and linked his arm with Mr.
And now it is nearly two o'clock, and if I go back alone she will be raving mad, and I'll get my discharge and no references, and my poor wife and six children will have to starve. So you will have to go with me and explain how it was that I wasn't there at one-fifteen o'clock."
"Oh, if it's a case of savin' the next dividend," says I, "I'll take another think. I expect you asked for him at the house?" "He was there at one-fifteen and left twenty minutes later," says Mr. Ellins. "Yes; but what kind of clothes was he wearin'?" says I. "Clothes!" snorts out Old Hickory. "What the blithering " "Lemme ask his man," says I, grabbin' the desk 'phone.
I agreed to elope this evening with the man I love, for he had long wished me to elope with him. I was to meet him outside his house at exactly one-fifteen o'clock, and I told him that if I was not there promptly he might know I had changed my mind. When the time came for me to hasten to him in my automobile, which was then to hurry us to a waiting minister, my automobile was not here.
This automobile belongs to a lady and I'm her hired chauffeur, and she's at a bridge-whist party in a house on Fifth Avenue, and I'm supposed to be waiting outside that house. One-fifteen o'clock was the time she said she would be out. But I thought maybe I might make a dollar or two for myself instead of waiting there all that time, and she would never know it.
A political meeting or election at home is an afternoon tea to the English ones. When we came back the soldiers were leaving the Park to stop the row, and as we flew past, the tenants ran to the gate and cheered for the Tory victory in "good old lopes." When we got to the house the servants ran cheering all over the shop and rang the alarm bell and built fires, and we had a supper at one-fifteen.
Carlisle, having spent "the morning" shopping, that is from twelve o'clock to one-fifteen, had departed to finish her commissions. Canning had a regretted engagement with Allison Payne, downtown, to advise Mr. Payne touching some of his investments.
So the world wagged as the archduke saw the golden minutes which lay between him and the one-fifteen slipping away while his daughter remained uncaught. He chafed and fumed. His vexation grew even more keen when he came to the end of his cigar and found that the thoughtless count had borne away the case.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking