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"It would not have occurred to me to drag her name into our conversation," said Yeovil coldly, "but in any case the accounts of her dancing performance will have reached Torywood through the newspapers also the record of your racially-blended supper-party." Cicely said nothing.
Although it is characteristic of his native town, and the manners of its youth to the present day, this spirit has perhaps done something to restrict his popularity. He recalls a supper-party pleasantry with something akin to tenderness; and sounds the praises of the act of drinking as if it were virtuous, or at least witty, in itself.
Many stars were shining; and between them and the sleeping garden echoed the clamour of a distant supper-party.
That was quite the way they did things. The supper-party included Mr.
And when the hero of the recent supper-party finally lay back in his own chair, panting and wriggling with pain, his mood had changed, perceptibly. "Have you dared," demanded Nicholas, in a voice low and trembling, "to burn the first masterpiece of a genius?" "I told you it was safe." "Do you imagine I believe Ah well! I take it back to Moscow with me, to-morrow."
"Never so sober in my life, Quinny. Besides, I don't get drunk. People who talk about beer and whisky as much as I do, never get drunk. Come along, there's a good chap!" "Very well ... only I'm not going to stay long. I'm no good for work the day after I've had a long night...." "I won't keep you long. How did the supper-party go off?" "Damnably.
Several times at about one o'clock in the morning Florent almost fancied that Leon was giving a supper-party; for he heard low whispering followed by a sound of munching jaws and rustling paper. And then a rippling girlish laugh would break faintly on the deep silence of the sleeping house like the soft trilling of a flageolet. The other assistant, Auguste Landois, came from Troyes.
The great tragedian seems not to have liked her with any cordiality; but he gives a pleasant account of a certain supper-party in honour of 'Ion' at which she is present, and during which she asks Macready if he will not now bring out her tragedy. The tragedian does not answer, but Wordsworth, sitting by, says, 'Ay, keep him to it. Besides the 'Life of Miss Mitford' by Messrs.
O'Neill contends that she hit him with a brick, an iron casing, and the Singer Building. Be that as it may, her efforts were sufficiently able to induce him to retire for reinforcements, which, arriving, arrested the supper-party regardless of age or sex. At the police-court this morning Miss Preston maintained that she and her friends were merely having a quiet home-evening and that Mr.
So Colleville and I became the best friends in the world. Didn't you hear him say to me at table, 'Rascal! you have stolen my speech'? To-night we shall be theeing and thouing each other. I intend to have a choice little supper-party soon, where artists, tied to the proprieties at home, always compromise themselves.
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