He informed his hostess of his breach of filial duty, which had happened just fifty years before on that very day.

It was like my hostess in a fashion of line and color, and yet enough unlike her so that I knew it must be the daughter.

It was a queer assembly, and from it arose a queer medley of sounds: the baby was , the old crone , the gossip , the embarrassed young man , the child the tale-bearer , the hostess with the most distinguished guest, and the trickster with his intended victim.

The wife is shown by her hostess to the sofa and is seated there as a mark of distinction.

We must, anyway, take the ladies to the host and hostess for presentation; then a few words and I am ready."

I met my host and hostess at an early breakfast.

Miss Sessions," he appealed to their hostess as umpire.

I shook my hostess by the hand, made a banal remark about the long interval since last we met, and walked behind them into the great dining room, dimly lit by candles, wondering in my heart how long my sister and I should stay, and why in the world we had ever left our cozy little flat to enter this desolation of riches and false luxury at all.

I was then lodging with a Madame Tissand, on the Place du Sablon, and I occasionally chatted with my hostess on the critical posture of affairs.

" De Catinat was more moved by the impressive manner of his hostess than by any of the other warnings which he had received.

" She recovered herself after that, and tried hard not to think of Mrs. Reffold as the dispenser of forgiveness, although it was some time before she could look at her hostess without wishing to laugh.

did She put the mirror down and lay back in her chair, her gaze fixed upon the wall beside her which bore a photograph of her young hostess astride her favorite hunter.

The engaged persons were chosen to sit with the hostess before the open fire and pretend they were in camp.

An interesting girl, decidedly, Gifford concluded as he made a suitable acknowledgment of her greeting, and, I fancy, my friend Harry takes a rather too superficial view of her character, he thought, as strolling off in search of Kelson, he found himself watching his hostess from across the room with more than ordinary interest.

My friend had almost forgotten the object of his visit; and when his anxious inquiries proved vain, he drew the loquacious hostess into general conversation, in order to elicit the mystery of the beautiful portrait.

The Count's jest provoked a laugh, as usual, and the guests followed their hostess toward the dining-hall, where the fragrance of flowers and refreshingly cool air greeted them.

Mr. Peter Phipps made his bow to his hostess under completely auspicious circumstances.

I did not rejoin my host and hostess until dinner-time.

She could play hostess against an effective background, and she did so graciously.