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M. de R. was the first to break the silence by giving me a cordial embrace. We burst out into mutual excuses, he for having imagined that there might be other Casanovas in Italy, and I for not having ascertained his name. He made me take pot-luck with him the same day, and we seemed as if we had never parted.
I replied that I never took Maton out anywhere, but that he would be welcome to come and take pot-luck with us every day if he liked. This refusal exhausted his resources, and he took his leave if not angrily, at least very coldly. I happened to look in that direction and I saw Maton at the window standing up and talking to M. de Bellegarde, who was at a neighbouring window.
"You won't find her equal to a liner, and the ticket is sold with the understanding that she is a cargo-boat, and if you are willing to take pot-luck with Captain Riggs, that is your affair. However, it is understood that you are not to make unreasonable complaints or demands of the master." My answer to this was to dump a handful of gold coins on the counter before he could change his mind.
If friends of Miss Allison dropped in to luncheon and the chat was of social matters or other girls, if Allison brought home fellow-magnates to take pot-luck at his hospitable board, if Mrs.
Notwithstanding the favor with which he was greeted, la Peyrade went discreetly to the Thuilliers'. When reproached for this reserve he went oftener, and ended by appearing every Sunday; he was invited to all dinner-parties, and became at last so familiar in the house that whenever he came to see Thuillier about four o'clock he was always requested to take "pot-luck" without ceremony.
Mary Gosport, afraid to march in a long dress with the child, for fear of accidents, handed him superbly to Millar and strutted haughtily after her mistress, nodding patronage. Her follower, the meek Millar, stopped often to show the heir right and left, with simple geniality and kindness. Sir Charles stood on the hall steps, and invited all to come in and take pot-luck.
I bundled several things into Mulvaney's haversack before the major's hand fell on my shoulder and he said tenderly, 'Requisitioned for the Queen's service. Wolseley was quite wrong about special correspondents: they are the soldier's best friends. Come and take pot-luck with us to- night.
Fabrice, notwithstanding some extravagances with the fair sex, became a millionaire; and the greatest glory of his life was that he lived to eclipse his old master, the rag-merchant." The same writer also gives a graphic description of one class of restaurants in Paris the pot-luck shops: "Pot-luck, or the fortune de pot, is on the whole the most curious feeding spectacle in Europe.
The whole morning and the early afternoon went to pot-luck firing from the trench along the draw, but although it was often asserted that Henry must long since be dead having returned none of the shooting that was meant to call his fire no one manifested the curiosity necessary to prove the assertion by closing in on the cabin.
Well, come the first soon night you feel like it " Carlisle had been doing some considering also, her conscience pricking her on account of the cousinly duty, long overdue. "I've an engagement to-morrow so sorry," she said, rather hastily. "But how about one night early next week, say Thursday, if that would suit ?" Chas and Hen agreed that it would do perfectly. Pot-luck at seven.
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