Hollis has been to see her, and Helen Rheid has called to see her, and invited her and Miss Prudence to come to tea some time.

Yet we eat and drink, or strive to eat and drink, like the hunters and huntresses, the farmers and the housewives, of the former generation; and they that pass ten hours in bed, and eight at cards, and the greater part of the other six at the table, are taught to impute to tea all the diseases which a life, unnatural in all its parts, may chance to bring upon them.

A BOMBARDED TOWN Alan carried me off to tea the same evening in a town where he seemed to know everybody.

When he deliberately, though politely, declined their invitation to tea one afternoon, their humiliation knew no bounds.

"He 's got a fevuh," he said, after feeling the patient's pulse and laying his hand on his brow, "an' we 'll hafter gib 'im some yarb tea an' nuss 'im tel de fevuh w'ars off.

Many sober minds make coffee and tea the pis a tergo of their daily intellectual labor; just as a few of greater imagination or genius seek in opium the spur of their ephemeral efforts.

When she came to tea her face was formidably expressive, nor would she attempt to modify the rancour of those uncompromising features.