Attendants in the drawing-room, even more than in the dining-room, should move about actively but noiselessly; no creaking of shoes, which is an abomination; watching the lights from time to time, so as to keep up their brilliancy.

Presently, when old Dorn and Neuman rose and left the dining-room, Kurt followed them.

He sat alone at a small table at one side of the dining-room in the Occidental Hotel.

" CHAPTER IX Pelletan's Skeleton As he left the dining-room that evening, Rushford crooked an imperious finger at Monsieur Pelletan.

"Come into the dining-room!"

That rumour went the rounds like wild-fire, so that we were given a wide berth and had a table all to ourselves in the darkest corner of the big dim dining-room.

Everything brought them as it were before my eyes; and as the door of the dining-room opened, I almost expected to hear the feeble voice of Master Silence quavering forth his favorite ditty: "Tis merry in hall, when beards wag all, And welcome merry Shrove-tide!

They had also noticed many a glance in their direction at meal-time in the dining-room; and they had come to the conclusion that departure was imperative.

As she was not, however, of a temper to indulge melancholy, she made it her endeavour to banish, as much as possible, all ideas which were displeasing from her mind: to this end, a fine harpsicord happening to stand in the dining-room, whenever the lady was abroad, she went in and diverted herself with playing.

We went up into a dining-room, about as large as your blue room, where we had something given us to eat, and tea and coffee.

They are let out in suites of rooms, and the occupants can either all feed together in the public dining-room or in lonely splendour in their own apartments.

In the dining-room the men drew closer together over their wine, and tore Lord Maulevrier's character to rags.

At this signal of departure into the dining-room she commented, "Well, I won't pretend that I'm not very glad." Sylvia flushed a little and looked towards her silently.

The eyes of the "new lady" wandered beyond the dining-room and followed a young girl, all in pink.

Sept. 4.Private Budd, electrical engineer, dissatisfied with appearance of bell-push in dining-room, altered it.

Mercy and Sophia watch over the cradle in the dining-room, where mother's fifteenth grandchild reposes, unconscious of the honor of sleeping where honorables, reverends, and reverendesses have slumbered before her.

After dinner I remained in the dining-room with Sniatynski, who liked a quiet talk over a glass of cognac after his coffee.

The dinner was an admirable one, the wines perfection, Mr. Branston having been a past-master of the art of good living, and having stocked his cellars with a view to a much longer life than had been granted to him; the attendance was careful and complete; the dining-room, with its rather old-fashioned furniture and heavy crimson hangings, a picture of comfort; and Mrs. Branston a most charming hostess.

"Don't we all look, almost the first thing, at the tree by the dining-room window?" "Yes," replied Miss Harson; "it is a beautiful sight with the snow lying on it in masses and the dark green of the leaves peeping through.

In the dining-room our interest was quickened upon our being told that the handsome sideboard had belonged to the Byrd family.

I went to the dining-room closet, intending to give Charlotte a glass of wine or brandy and water.

As this occurred when every stateroom was filled, even Bee's sacred duke being among the number of our guests, these self-invited ones remained in every instance when they knew that it would force Jimmie to sleep upon a bench in the dining-room and be seriously inconvenienced.

But I think it likely that we shall get no more sleep than the mouse in the cat's dining-room this night.

"We've taken the liberty of calling, in the name of the church, to congratulate you, Mr. Drake," said their leader, rising with the rest as the minister entered the dining-room.

" In conclusion, we may observe that to sit long in the dining-room after the ladies have retired is to pay a bad compliment to the hostess and her fair visitors; and that it is a still worse tribute to rejoin them with a flushed face and impaired powers of thought.