So he stayed, not daring to move, until a dinner horn sounded somewhere in the cluster of cottages beyond, and the smith, closing the doors of his shop, went away with the three yokels.
One or two ladies gave him a preoccupied nod, a plain little woman whom he had talked with about books at a recent dinner smiled upon him encouragingly.
When the dinner was over, Carmen followed Mr. Mavick to his study.
The party was over for him, though he wandered about for a while, was attracted again by the music to the ballroom, and did find there a dinner acquaintance with whom he took a turn.
He stammered out something about the weather and the coming spring, and made an allusion to the dinner at Mrs. Van Cortlandt's.
XVIII Upon the recollection of this dinner Philip maintained his hope and courage for a long time.
For the dinner he had paid a round price in advance, and had given the proprietor a small silver coin of peculiar workmanship as a memorial of his visit.
This reply appeared satisfactory to the old gentleman, who, after a little further conversation, invited me to attend him to his residence and partake of a dinner with him at his own table.
After dinner I had a nap, and then I went for a stroll.
I hope, Master Hal, you are not going to be ill," she said, as soon as dinner was over.
Dinner over, he drew his chair to the fire, and I followed his example.
Not wishing to disturb him, I retired to get rid of my muddy boots and leggings; and on my return, dinner was on the table.
Long before the simple dinner was over, she had relapsed into her old forbidding manner, and into a silence which was more chilly than any words could have been.
My mother wishes to know if you and your mother will not come in and eat a Christmas dinner with us to-morrow.
Their breakfast and their mid-day dinner were too hurried meals for enjoyment, because Stephen was obliged to make haste to the office; but with supper there was nothing to interfere.
Mother and I were just saying that it would be the first Christmas dinner we ever ate alone.
Long after it would have broken his heart to set out a generous dinner for a neighbor, he would feast him on choice apples, and send him away with a big basket full in his hands.
A man sober and the same man drunk are scarcely more different than the Marnier who had ridden with me up the sandy street of Beni-Kouidar the previous day and the man who sat opposite to me at dinner in the 'Rendezvous des Amis' that night.
Directly dinner was over he sprang up from the table.
He here took off the skin, with which he hoped to make several pairs of shoes, while the flesh supplied him with a dinner of fresh meat for a couple of days; the other portions he salted, in store for future use.
We sit in the little green arbor after dinner drinking coffee and talking till late at night.
After a simple dinner and a dip in the soft sea, we awaited our invariable visitor, M.
She writes: "Our dinner was most successful, our guest continually asking for double helpings and breaking out into heartfelt praises of the food.
He was extremely absent-minded, and his wife liked to tell how he once killed a chicken for the family dinner and threw away the chicken and brought in the head.
After dinner we talked or read aloud, and on rare occasions visited Mr. Powell or received a visit from him.
I sang it on that occasion for the first time, and later at Apia at a dinner given for the ship.
After each had embraced him, he asked them up to his rooms, and, despite the ill-concealed scorn of the waiter, ordered up a grand dinner for them.
Then she had to cook the dinner; then, of course, like a fool and a woman, must wait dinner for me and make a flurry of herself.
One evening in the summer of 1876 the little party of guests at the old inn sat at dinner about the long table in the centre of the salle-à-manger with the painted panels--handiwork of artists who had stopped there at various times.
In an hour and a half we waked simultaneously and found dinner waiting for us.
In his talk at his last Thanksgiving dinnerhe referred to this as one of his chief reasons for gratitude.
In another moment Shenac's black dress was pinned up, and soon the dinner was on the table, and the father and children were seated at it.
Shenac milked in the rain, and gathered vegetables for dinner in the rain, and would gladly have made hay all day in the rain, if that had been possible.
Mother," said Dan, as he came in to his dinner one day, "have you any message to The Sixteenth?
Let me do that," she added hastily, as she saw the success of the dinner put in jeopardy by an awkward movement of the incompetent cook.
The barley will be all down by dinner-time, and they'll take their dinner here, and we'll go up together.
They always serve them up before dinner in Russia as a kind of relish.
It is considered bad taste in good society there to ask a friend to sit down to dinner without offering him this appetizer.
They are to burn, and my wife cannot cook the dinner without them.
Then the Richmoor family began to consider an immediate removal to London, and, as a preparatory courtesy, gave a large dinner party at the Castle.
Just before the dinner hour, she saw Squire Atheling and Kate approaching to pay their respects to the Duchess.
The Duchess was approaching, and with her, a young man in dinner costume.
The favourable impression was strengthened in that hour after dinner when ladies left to their own devices either become disagreeable or confidential.
For a short time it was held in abeyance; but when the early dinner was over, and she was in the solitude of her own room, Piers put Edgar out of consideration.
I declare I was going without giving you my news,--the Duchess has a large dinner party on the first of March.
The dinner was a family dinner, but far from being tiresome or dull.
I had not slept well for nights, and after the good things I had eaten at dinner and that excellent vintage, I had been looking forward to a sound, an unusually sound sleep.
At dinner she was lively, but she ate and drank very sparingly, and as though food was loathsome to her.
Therefore, I prefer not to take the risk, and to sit down to dinner in any number but thirteen.
But, as I have already said, I had seldom if ever enjoyed a dinner as I enjoyed this one.
Soon after dinner I felt so exceedingly tired and sleepy, a most unusual thing for me, that I found it absolutely impossible to keep awake, and consequently asked my host and hostess to excuse me.
At dinner I drank sparingly; and, making the same excuse as on the previous nights, I retired to bed at an early hour.
After dinner there was little comedietta played on the boards of the toy theatre belonging to the house.
So when her dinner lord essayed to entice her, she shook her head.
Meanwhile, Peter had been bustling about after such dinner arrangements as he could attend to.
Mary shouldered him as if he belonged to her when they arrived at Redford, shortly before thedinner hour.
The sisters had a little picnic dinner by themselves, washing up their plates and dishes in the neat kitchen, Deb insisting upon taking part in the performance, and sat long by the fireside afterwards.
He sat down to his dinner a few minutes later with his head in a whirl and his appetite nowhere, as an effect of that cordial pressure of the hand, those tender eyes, and that deep-hued blush upon him.
He went himself, out of friendship for Jim, and after dinner sat in the verandah with Alice, and explained why he had not brought the baby.
Her throwing open of the door revealed a picture so charming that it persuaded Deb to accept an invitation to dinner in order that she might do justice to it.
When Deb and her father returned from their expedition, it was to hear from Frances an excited story of how the elder sister had hidden behind locked doors, and not only refused dinner but denied speech to all comers.
And I'm sure I don't want to look at dinner after such a lunch as I have eaten.
We must all get to work diligently, and at the end of eight hours and a half we must come to dinner acquainted with New Zealand; at least well enough informed to appear without discredit before this native.
College etiquette required that he be at once invited to dinner by some member of the Faculty--invited to dine on that day--not, put off till a subsequent day.
The reason would seem to be, that as a rat cannot tell the time of day by a clock, he won't stay where he cannot find out when dinner is ready.
After dinner he and his officers joined the ladies and gentlemen in the ladies' saloon, and shared in the singing and piano playing, and helped turn the music.
After dinner I and my mother slept inside the room, and Tookaram slept on a cot near his brother-in-law, Yessoo Mahadhoo, just outside the door.
On the morning following the Page dinner at breakfast, he said: "Engage a carriage and we will drive out and see the Saint-Gaudens bronze.
I have had a jolly good time, and I do hate to go away from these English folks; they make a stranger feel entirely at home, and they laugh so easily that it is a comfort to make after-dinner speeches here.
Mark Twain's only profit from this source was in the delivery of a delicious speech, which he made at a dinner given to Cornelius Walford, of London, an insurance author of repute.
We were at Thomas Nelson Page's for dinner next evening--a wonderfully beautiful home, full of art treasures.
At a dinner of the Washington Correspondents Club his response to the toast, "Women," was pronounced by Schuyler Colfax to be "the best after dinner speech ever made.
Another memory of that dinner is linked to a demand that Aldrich made of Clemens that night, for his photograph.
He had Mark out to dinner the night before the show was to come off, and after he got well warmed up with champagne he thought it would be a smart thing to let Mark into what was really going on.
I saw to-day at dinner venerable divines and sage- looking men convulsed with laughter at his drolleries and quaint, odd manners.
This was at the grand banquet at the Palmer House, where six hundred guests sat down to dinner and Grant himself spoke, and Logan and Hurlbut, and Vilas and Woodford and Pope, fifteen in all, including Robert G.
In the course of the dinner they gave him a pretty surprise, when little joy Agnew presented him with the original drawing of Partridge's cartoon.
It was for this dinnerthat Mr. George Neston, barrister-at-law, was putting on his white tie one May evening in his chambers off Piccadilly.
Everything was packed up, and ready to start; only the dinner service and the heavy old plate was still used, and displayed its glories for the last time.
The emperor was in the same good spirits at the dinner to which the marshals and several distinguished officers were invited.
Now Dickinson, in order to celebrate his marriage, had arranged to give a dinner to two hundred of his workpeople, and this took place on a Saturday in his native parish of Kirkby-Overblow.
It seemed odd that so fine a building should remain so long unoccupied, and at length one man more curious than the rest asked his host when at a small dinnerparty if he could explain the reason.
They sailed first to the Gulf of Mexico and stopped in the port of Vera Cruz, where the officers arranged to go on shore and have a grand dinner at the best inn in the place.
You are wondering, my dear young Prince," said he, "why I have no dinner cooking.
Dinner was ready, and after it was over the old gentleman told me I had better leave about midnight so as to be back in the village before it was light enough for anyone to see me.
This message was accompanied with a note of invitation to Mr. Campbell, the ladies, and Henry and Alfred, to take a farewell dinner at Government House the day before their departure.
Dinner is ready, and we must not keep hungry people waiting.
After dinner they renewed their labors, and commenced clearing away a path to the lodge, where the cows were locked in, and before nightfall they had accomplished their task as far as the bridge over the stream, which was about half-way.
As soon as the dinnerwas at the fire, and could be left to the care of Martin, Mrs. Campbell and the Misses Percival went into the sitting-room.
Dinner was now announced, and they all sat down, a happy party.
In a few minutes dinner was on the table, and they all sat down without waiting for Martin and John, who were still busy skinning the wolf.
As this was to be a holiday in the woods, they prepared a cold dinner in a large basket, and gave it in charge of Henry.
Martin got up and went for the shovels; during his absence, the dinner was cleared away, and the articles replaced in the basket; they then all adjourned to where the dogs were still barking and scratching.
The fog lasted two days, and was still continuing when the party on board the London Merchant, just as they were sitting down to dinner in the cabin, heard a noise and bustle on deck.
Wang was angry with her for being so dull, but there was no help for it; and by the time dinner was over he found some of his mother's servants had come in search of him, bringing a couple of donkeys with them.
The wine and the eatables were delicious, and very nicely served; and when the dinner was taken away, a course of rare fruits was put on the table, the names of all of which it would be impossible to mention.
However much his reception had been prearranged, dinner had formed no part of the program.
It was an uncomfortable dinner from the moment they sat down.
Now that the first shock was over, they went into dinner as if nothing had happened.
But dinner for two, in an oak-paneled room, when the spring dusk is falling is different.
Directly dinnerwas ended, he would try to hurry him off and imprison him in his library to discuss this Maisie woman and Adair.
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