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I only said that I would attend if I were in London on the 11th, but I added that, situated as I was, I thought it very probable that I should be out of town. I shall go to-night to Miss Berry's soirée. I do not know whether I told you that she resented my article on Horace Walpole so much that Sir Stratford Canning advised me not to go near her. She was Walpole's greatest favourite.
He was invited that evening to a soiree by the queen-mother, where he wished to shine as an improvisator. Above all other things, he wished to win the heart of the Princess Amelia.
Marrier had been extremely taken up with the dramatic soirée of the Azure Society which Edward Henry justifiably but quite privately resented. Was he not paying three pounds a week to Marrier?
They seem to be resting up, a bit, after their pleasant little soiree. Now, if they'd only all go to sleep, it'd be a walk-over!" The girl looked at him, very seriously. "You mustn't go out there alone, whatever happens!" she exclaimed. "I just won't let you! But tell me," she questioned again, "how much have you really found out about them whatever they are." "Not much.
Seymour Hicks sometimes got an invitation to a ministerial soiree. The vote of the House of Commons in favour of an appropriation of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church to the purposes of secular education a vote which had just changed the government and expelled the Tories was much discussed.
In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing. There was a friend who played upon the 'cello.
We may as well go down together." He came back a moment later, having changed his coat. He was attaching the small insignia of a foreign order to the lapel. "Going to a swarree?" asked Cable, as between men of the world. "I am going to look for a man I want to see to-night, and I think I shall find him, as you say, at a soiree," answered Cartoner, gravely.
Monsieur de Rosas, usually very pale, became pallid, and a slight curl of his lip, although immediately suppressed, gave an upward turn to his reddish moustache. "Ah!" he said, "You still see Guy." "I! I had not spoken a single word to him until I asked him to have an invitation sent me for this soirée, and then it was merely because I knew you would be here."
Perry's Bend had failed to wipe out the score. Buckskin gradually readjusted itself to the conditions which had existed before its sudden leap into the limelight as a town which did things. The soiree at the Houston House had drifted into the past, and was now substantially established as an epoch in the history of the town.
She had known but little of Marcia, and that little had shown her only as a lover of dress and of admiration, besides being capricious to a degree unusual even in a spoiled favorite. A musical soirée was under consideration. Marcia was a proficient upon the harp and piano, and, as she had heard that Mr.
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