He greeted me with extreme friendliness, and we went into the hall, a very large and lofty apartment, to tea.

At seven, I went with Mrs. Hall to Church, and came back to tea.'

We went to Highflatts to tea; when I got to the place where the remains of my dear friend were laid, I stood silently by the coffin in tears, saying in spirit, If it be thy mantle I am designed to wear, may I receive it with humility, reverence and fear!

She asked me to tea in the schoolroom, but you weren't there, and they said I should find you here, so I came to fetch you.

Sometimes when the Scotch Preacher comes to tea and remarks that her pudding is good, I firmly believe that she interprets the words into a spiritual message for her.

I was invited to tea, but I didn't stay.

Couldn't he come to tea this afternoon?

He was very kind and cordial, and pressed my wife and myself to go home with him to tea.

Then we are going to tea with some people who are taking us a motor run.

Whereon, half to spite Elsley, and half to show her own right to chat with whom she chose, she made Lucia ask Frank to tea; and next contrived to go to the school when he was teaching there, and to make Elsley ask him to walk with them; and all the more, because she had discovered that Elsley had discontinued his walks with Frank, as soon as she had appeared at Penalva.

"We may not," said Ned's grandmother, who had come out to call the boys in to tea, and had overheard the latter part of their conversation; "we may not, perhaps, be always able to prevent covetous or envious thoughts from entering our mind; but we should directly endeavour to drive them away, and pray to God to make us contented with 'that state of life in which it has pleased Him to place us.'

Frank Headley had been asked up to tea; and he stood at the piano, listening to Valencia's singing.

ere day was dawning; When folks like these sit next to me, They send me dinnerless to tea; One cannot chew while yawning.

Frank would be here before her mother got up again to tea.

Mr. C. came to tea; after it and prayers, we sat round the table

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

For a long time I drew blank, but at last a cabman on his way home to tea told me that there was a milkman in his street who was 'a politician and would know.'

Augustus came to tea next day and his hostess made much of him.

Every woman in the county used to come, and they used to stay to tea, and you used to insist on a great number remaining to supper.

Thus did Tommy and Lady Pippinworth become friends, but it was not this that sent him so often to her house to tea.

Mr. Stobell and his wife had just sat down to tea when they arrived, and Mrs. Stobell, rising from behind a huge tea-pot, gave a little cry of surprise as her friend entered the room, and kissed her affectionately.

"To tea?" "No.

She turned soon, however, and overtook us, proposing to make a detour to Drummond Street, where an intimate family friend, "Old Hepburn," lived, so that the prospect of our going to tea with her might be made probable by her catching a passing glimpse of us; at this time she must be at the window with her Voltaire, or her Rousseau.

Had John been entertaining smart people to tea, and showing his pictures, with the rest?

Zara went to her room when they got back to the house, and when she came down to tea he was not there, and she had hers alone with Jake.