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He asked me to tell you how glad he was that under such unusual conditions you held so firmly to the teachings of Christ." The next day I was still more reassured. A reception was given us at the home of one of Brigham Young's daughters, and the receiving-line was graced by the presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Whether she knew it or not, from the moment of her appearance at the hostess's end of the long receiving-line, the senator's wife had been marked and followed in her slow progress through the rooms by a thin-faced man who seemed to be nervously trying to hunch himself into better relations with his ill-fitting dress-coat, an eager gentleman whose hawk-like eyes never lost sight of the little lady with her hand on Gantry's arm.
The crowd below them, as they stood for a moment on the landing, half-way down the stairs, gave comforting evidence that it had thinned, according to Lana's prophecy. The receiving-line was broken. Senator Corson was sauntering here and there, saying a word to this one or that in more intimate manner than his formal post in the line permitted.
Miss Lana had suddenly observed warning symptoms in the case of Mrs. Stanton. Mrs. Stanton, according to a solicitous friend's best judgment, was no longer assisting in the receiving-line; Mrs. Stanton needed assistance!
There was the sight of the bride and groom in the receiving-line, now no longer badly executed graven images, but quite themselves Molly starry-eyed, triumphant, astonishingly beautiful, her husband distinguished, ugly, self-possessed, easily the most interesting personality in the room; there was the difficult moment of the presentation, the handclasp with Felix, the rapturous vague kiss from Molly, evidently too uplifted to have any idea as to the individualities of the people defiling before her; then the passing on into the throng, the eating and drinking and talking with acquaintances from the Lydford summer colony, of whom there were naturally a large assortment.
Weatherford in the long receiving-line. From room to room in the vast house a curiously assorted throng of the bidden ones worked its way as the jam and crush permitted. A firm believer in the maxim that in numbers there is strength, the hostess had made her invitation-list long and catholic.
Help yourselves." "Mama, 'sh-h-h! the waiters know what to do." Mrs. Coblenz turned back, the flush warm to her face. "Say, for an old friend I can be my own self." "Can we break the receiving-line now, Lester honey, and go down with everybody? The Sinsheimers and their crowd over there by themselves, we ought to show we appreciate their coming." Mr.
A great company of self-appointed retainers gathered together from over all the country, rode behind the gayly decorated bridal-coach in procession from the church to Jeffries's house, where the feasts had been prepared. During the reception a modest man, dragged from an obscure corner among the guests, was made to take his place next Lefever on the receiving-line.
Help yourselves." "Mamma, sh-h-h, the waiters know what to do." Mrs. Coblenz turned back, the flush warm to her face. "Say, for an old friend, I can be my own self." "Can we break the receiving-line now, Lester honey, and go down with everybody? The Sinsheimers and their crowd over there by themselves, we ought to show we appreciate their coming." Mr.
He was soothing himself with a smoke on the way toward the Corson mansion. "But why worry so much when the night is still young?" he queried, placidly. Senator Corson, at the head of the receiving-line, attended strictly to the task in hand as an urbane and assiduous host.
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