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When I ride too much in the cold right away up in my ribs comes the sciatica again." Miss Meyerburg bent radiant over her parent. "Mother," she whispered, her throat lined with the fur of tenderness, "it's reception-day out at that club, and all the cliques will be there, and I want " "Sure, Becky, you and the marquis should drive out.
"I hope it will," said Fleda, in a tone of resolute simplicity. "I only hope it will not bring too great a throng of carriages to the door," Mrs. Evelyn went on, in a tone of great internal amusement; "I never used to mind it, but I have lately a nervous fear of collisions." "To-morrow is not your reception-day?" said Fleda. "No, not mine," said Mrs.
"Huh," she laughed, as she advanced toward him, her pail swinging by her side. "This is my reception-day, and this is my parlor. Won't you come in and set awhile? Take that rocking-chair over near the piano or maybe you'd rather smoke in the bay-window, where you can get fresh air." "What's the joke now?" he inquired. "I'm not exactly on."
To satisfy the requirements of her mind Madame Rabourdin took a weekly reception-day and went a great deal into society to obtain the consideration her self-love was accustomed to enjoy. Those who know Parisian life will readily understand how a woman of her temperament suffered, and was martyrized at heart by the scantiness of her pecuniary means.
In fact, Wednesday is her reception-day; although, as now everybody is out of town, we were the only callers. She is an agreeable and kindly woman. She told us that her husband and herself propose going to America next year, and I heartily wish they may meet with a warm and friendly reception. I have been seldom more assured of the existence of a heart than in her; also a good deal of sentiment.
"Then tell it to me!" cried Rabourdin, angry for the first time since his marriage. "There! it is half-past six o'clock; finish shaving and dress at once," she cried hastily, after the fashion of women when pressed on a point they are not ready to talk of. "I must go; we'll adjourn the discussion, for I don't want to be nervous on a reception-day.
"There's nothing like a lamp-post for an occasion like this, it broadens one's views so," he said, rapidly climbing up a convenient post, from which he could see all that went on. "I didn't know that this was the royal family's reception-day. Do you want to know what I think?" "Mumm is the word," whispered Bourrienne. "This is no time to have opinions."
Attributing his tardiness to some new misfortune, she thought of writing to him, when at last, on Tuesday, the day which the countess had chosen for her reception-day, but not until the room was already quite full of company, the servant announced, "M. Palmer, M. de Brevan!"
DEAR M., We received the invitation for the first ball at the Tuileries before my mother-in-law had presented me to the Grande Maitresse Duchesse de Bassano; but her reception-day being on the same day as the ball I was able, fortunately, to go there and to be presented to her. Mrs. M preferred to make the "preliminary steps" with me in her wake.
An old friend of his once told me that one day, in calling upon Madame Feuillet, he expressed his regret that she had no regular reception-day, as in that case he would be able to see her more frequently. "Well," she answered, "I should like to have one, but, you see, it is quite impossible.
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