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"Rather late for good-nights," she said, coldly. "I've just come from Anthony's supper-party." His voice made her look round sharply. She saw that his linen, ordinarily stiff and immaculate, was sodden and crumpled, his collar limp, his forehead glistening with drops of moisture. She could not remember ever having seen him in such a state. His appearance affected her queerly.
We'll have it at ten o'clock, when the supper-party is going on at the barn, eh? We shan't be interrupted then. So give me that duplicate key, will you, and I can slip in quietly through the back door without raising a bit of gossip or scandal. Hurry up now! I shall have to be going." "I can't now," she protested. "Leopold hasn't taken his eyes off me all this time."
On a subsequent night Sarah of Marlborough called without appointment at the same chambers, and waited till past midnight in the hope that she would see the lawyer ere she went to bed. But Murray being at an unusually late supper-party, did not return till her grace had departed in an over-powering rage.
It is the most wonderful city in the world to stay in until you are ready to go home. Sam hadn't been at Peter's supper-party, and neither had Judge Vandyne, but I didn't worry about that. I never worry about Sam. I just like to know he is somewhere near and then forget him if I am allowed, which I am not if Sam can think up some important work for me to do.
But in that brief passage he had opened our souls to everlasting things the freshness, and the darkness, and the kindness of the brooding, all-enfolding night above the sea. The night before the wedding we had a supper-party in my rooms. We were twelve in all. My friend Eustace brought his gondolier Antonio with fair-haired, dark-eyed wife, and little Attilio, their eldest child.
I am ashamed to give you all this trouble about such a trifling matter." She rapped her knuckles impatiently on the table. "Never mind about the trouble," she exclaimed tartly. "What is it that you want to ask me about?" I stated my difficulties in respect of the supper-party, and, as I proceeded, an expression of disgust and disappointment spread over her countenance.
And scorn is such a very different thing in top-boots! This brutal man had invited a supper-party for Christmas eve, when he would expect to see mince-pies on the table. Mrs.
You know, if I give a supper-party to my friends, it is to thank these gentlemen for the medal I got at the Salon. I cannot receive women. You ought to understand that. It is not the same with artists as with other people." She stammered, in the midst of her tears: "Why didn't you tell me this?" He replied: "It was in order not to annoy you, not to give you pain. Listen, I'm going to see you home.
"A supper-party!" he exclaimed. "But I can't!" "Why not?" "Why I have no clothes." "Nobody expects a poet to have clothes," laughed Miss Lewis. "Come in the garments of your fancy. And besides, Barry's a true Bohemian."
I thought you were coming on the Thursday boat?" "Some inducement to change my mind," Mr. Fischer replied, drawing a chair up to her side. "Meaning me?" "I guess that's so!" "Of course, I'm exceedingly flattered," Pamela observed, "or rather I should be if I believed you, but I don't see how you could leave a supper-party at Henry's and go straight to Tilbury."
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