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Updated: June 15, 2025
In London the prime minister who has an indifferent official residence, which he and his family have occasionally occupied, in Downing street lives in Carlton-House Terrace. It is a beautiful house, but not by any means well adapted for party-giving, for it is so constructed that circulation is almost impossible.
All these things together confirmed Mavis in the feeling that she had reached the apotheosis of her party-giving. At the bottom of the table there was of course slight excess. The fun down there became rather broad. And old Mrs. Goudie made jokes which she reserved solely for weddings, and which she had better have kept to herself even then.
It was good-natured, too, that invitation given to Mrs Eames and her daughter. The error lay in the parson and his wife. There was no necessity for their being there, nor had they any ground on which to stand, except the party-giving ground. Mr and Mrs Boyce made the dinner-party, and destroyed the social circle. Lady Julia knew that she had been wrong as soon as she had sent out the note.
The season was at its height, and the Grangers found every available hour of their existence engaged in visiting and receiving visitors. There were so many people whom Lady Laura insisted upon introducing to her dear Clarissa there was so much in the way of party-giving that Lady Laura wanted her sweet Mrs. Granger to do.
We can afford to be very bitter upon them now they are all gone. Now there are no more parties, let us have at the Party-giving Snobs. The dinner-giving, the ball-giving, the DEJEUNER-giving, the CONVERSAZIONE-GIVING Snobs Lord! Lord! what havoc might have been made amongst them had we attacked them during the plethora of the season!
With feeble health, with poor servants, with a large house crowded with fine furniture, and with the claims of a numerous calling and party-giving acquaintance, claims which both my father and herself imagined his business and her social position made imperative, what could she do more than to see that our innumerable white skirts were properly tucked, embroidered, washed, and starched, that our party dresses were equal to those which Mrs.
Ellen raised her upper lip over her teeth at the thought of Marion's subsequent awkwardness. There had not, when she announced her plan of taking Richard and Ellen up to town the next morning and spending the day shopping and going to a theatre, been the least real party-giving joy in her tone.
Needham seems to have taken immensely to him." "I can understand that. De Burgh has wherewithal now to recommend him to most party-giving dowagers." "That speech is not like you, Mr. Errington; you know my dear good chief is utterly uninfluenced by worldly considerations.
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