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'I find I gets on better at supper when I does,' replied Sam.
The new-comers having been welcomed by the old ones, Mr. Tuckle put the question that supper be ordered in, which was carried unanimously.
If any two of his numerous virtues predominated over the many that adorned his character, I should say they were his mixed punch and his after- supper song.
If you ever did, you will agree with me that it requires a pretty strong head to go out to dinner and supper afterwards.
It was a glorious supper.
I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey-toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the bailie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of "Willie brewed a peck o' maut"; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going, especially as drinking had set in at seven o'clock, in order that he might get home at a decent hour.
Like to order supper, Sir?''Not just now.''Very good, Sir.'Here, he walked slowly to the door, and then stopping short, turned round and said, with great suavity--'Shall I send the chambermaid, gentlemen?''You may if you please,' replied Mr. Pickwick.
'He is just going to supper, Sir,' replied the girl.
'Yes, Sir, and supper,' added Pott.
'Not a bit of it,' answered Wardle; 'she has been crying and moping ever since, except last night, between tea and supper, when she made a great parade of writing a letter that I pretended to take no notice of.''You want my advice in this matter, I suppose?' said Perker, looking from the musing face of Mr. Pickwick to the eager countenance of Wardle, and taking several consecutive pinches of his favourite stimulant.
"Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain answer."
We shall now have a little supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day to-morrow."
"Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow up this clue while it is still hot."
However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue.
This he unpacked with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble lodging-house mahogany.
"They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands.
"I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us in a friendly supper."
I would not disappoint the little angel for all the world: and if you want me at the card-table now, I am resolved to finish the basket after supper."
Let her name her own supper, and go to bed.
There is not a room in this cottage that will hold ten couple, and where can the supper be?'I immediately saw that there could be no difficulty in it, so I said, 'My dear Lady Elliott, do not be uneasy.
The dining parlour will admit eighteen couple with ease; card-tables may be placed in the drawing-room; the library may be open for tea and other refreshments; and let the supper be set out in the saloon.'
A table, which had been covered with an elegant supper, was overturned.
"Yes," continued Athos, "four times only; once at the house of Monsieur Crequy; another time at my own house in the country, in my chateau at--when I had a chateau; a third time at Monsieur de Treville’s where it surprised us all; and the fourth time at a cabaret, where it fell to my lot, and where I lost a hundred louis and a supper on it."
She had heard something said about supper.
"So," replied de Winter, laughing, "that beautiful hair so skillfully disheveled, that white skin, and that languishing look, have not yet seduced you, you heart of stone?""No, my Lord," replied the impassive young man; "your Lordship may be assured that it requires more than the tricks and coquetry of a woman to corrupt me.""In that case, my brave lieutenant, let us leave Milady to find out something else, and go to supper; but be easy!
Milady’s supper was brought in, and she was found deeply engaged in saying her prayers aloud--prayers which she had learned of an old servant of her second husband, a most austere Puritan.
In the evening Lord de Winter accompanied the supper.
"A table, with two covers, bearing a supper ready prepared, stood, as if by magic, in the middle of the apartment.
I saw, amid the shadows, the table sink through the floor; a quarter of an hour later it reappeared, bearing my supper.
During the darkness, as before, my supper was brought.
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