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The footman presented roast partridge, while the housemaid began to pour out Chambertin for the guests.
His guests excused him; the meal was becoming a military lunch, eaten on the field of battle before the first shots were fired.
But he said these things in a distracted way; he constantly looked at the manager, who was absorbed in the reading of his dispatches and forgetful of his guests.
Around the table the guests were looking at one another with uneasy indecision.
When M. Hennebeau re-entered the dining-room he found his guests motionless and silent before the liqueurs.
He had seen the scene, and came to receive his guests in his usual cold and polite manner.
But in vain he begged his guests to sit down; the close, barricaded room, lighted by two lamps in the daytime, was filled with terror at each new clamour from without.
His smiling face struck the guests.
Did this incomprehensible individual think I had detected some secret forbidden to guests on the Nautilus?
Chapter FourThe guests arrived early in carriages, in one-horse chaises, two-wheeled cars, old open gigs, waggonettes with leather hoods, and the young people from the nearer villages in carts, in which they stood up in rows, holding on to the sides so as not to fall, going at a trot and well shaken up.
The other wedding guests talked of their business or played tricks behind each other's backs, egging one another on in advance to be jolly.
In his heart he accused old Rouault of being proud, and he joined four or five other guests in a corner, who having, through mere chance, been several times running served with the worst helps of meat, also were of opinion they had been badly used, and were whispering about their host, and with covered hints hoping he would ruin himself.
The red claws of lobsters hung over the dishes; rich fruit in open baskets was piled up on moss; there were quails in their plumage; smoke was rising; and in silk stockings, knee-breeches, white cravat, and frilled shirt, the steward, grave as a judge, offering ready carved dishes between the shoulders of the guests, with a touch of the spoon gave you the piece chosen.
Guests were arriving.
Guests were flocking to the billiard room.
Everyone was waltzing, Mademoiselle d'Andervilliers herself and the Marquis; only the guests staying at the castle were still there, about a dozen persons.
Then they talked a few moments longer, and after the goodnights, or rather good mornings, the guests of the chateau retired to bed.
If only I knew what dessert to offer the guests you are expecting!
When coffee was served Felicite went away to get ready the room in the new house, and the guests soon raised the siege.
The feast was long, noisy, ill served; the guests were so crowded that they could hardly move their elbows; and the narrow planks used for forms almost broke down under their weight.
But from that moment she listened no more; and the chorus of the guests, the scene between Ashton and his servant, the grand duet in D major, all were for her as far off as if the instruments had grown less sonorous and the characters more remote.
'Even if we forget,' he said to himself as he walked away, 'that the money has been stolen from the poor prisoners, and that they are forbidden to sing as well, would it ever occur to M. de Renal to tell his guests the price of each bottle of wine that he offers them?
The Marquis must have spoken of the kind of education that Julien had received, for one of the guests tackled him upon Horace: 'It was precisely in discussing Horace that I was successful with the Bishop of Besancon,' Julien said to himself, 'evidently he is the only author they know.'
'My eyes will be dull and will not betray me!'Gradually, the guests arrived in the drawing-room; the door never opened without plunging Julien in mortal dread.
"Leni, who's this coming in?" asked the lawyer, unable to recognise his guests because he was dazzled by the candle.
The ladies left the table to their guests, who proceeded, without much superfluous diffidence, to do proper honors to the hospitality of Mr. Wharton.
The number and character of her guests had greatly added to the cares of Miss Jeanette Peyton.
The kind-hearted spinster had deemed the occasion worthy, not only of extraordinary preparations in the culinary department, but had seen proper to deck her own person in garments suited to the guests whom it was now her happiness to entertain.
Most of the guests had been fasting too long to be in any degree fastidious in their appetites; but the case was different with Captain Lawton; he felt an unaccountable loathing at the exhibition of Betty's food, and could not refrain from making a few passing comments on the condition of the knives, and the clouded aspect of the plates.
The hostess was provided with a beverage more suited to the high seasoning to which she had accustomed her palate, than the tasteless present of Captain Wharton; by which means Betty had managed, with tolerable facility, to keep even pace with the exhilaraton of her guests.
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