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" Cards, tea and music filled up the time till twelve, and then the ladies took their departure and the gentlemen sat down to supper. I got to bed somewhere about two o'clock; and thus ended an evening which I had anticipated as stiff and embarrassing,... "
Pencillings by the Way - Page 346
by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1842 - 464 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 53-54

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 608 pages
...wines began to be circulated more slowly ; and at eleven, there was a general move to the drawingroom. Cards, tea, and music filled up the time till twelve,...is marked in my tablets as one of the most social arid kindly I have had the good fortune to record on my travels. I have described it, and shall describe...
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser. New and improved ser, Volume 1

1836 - 646 pages
...wines began to be circulated more slowly; and at eleven, there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea, and music, filled up the time till twelve,...had the good fortune to record on my travels."— vol. iii, pp. 191—195. In the preface Mr.Willis says, that fortunateln his introductions, almost...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1836 - 636 pages
...wines began to be circulated more slowly ; and at eleven, there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea, and music, filled up the time till twelve,...have had the good fortune to record on my travels." — voLiii, pp. 191—195. In the preface Mr. Willis says, that fortunate" in his introductions, almost...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 7

1836 - 740 pages
...wines began to be circulated more slowly; and at eleven, there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea, and music, filled up the time till twelve,...gentlemen sat down to supper. I got to bed somewhere abuut two o'clock ; and tbus ended an evening, which I had anticipated as stiff and emharrassing, but...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 54

1835 - 610 pages
...wines began to be circulated more slowly ; and at eleven, there was a general move to the drawingroom. Cards, tea, and music filled up the time till twelve,...have had the good fortune to record on my travels. I have described it, and shall describe others minutely — and I hope there is no necessity of reminding...
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The Rural Life of England, Volume 1

William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 448 pages
...be circulated more slowly, and at eleven there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea, music, filled up the time till twelve, and then the...have had the good fortune to record on my travels. " I arose late in the morning, and found the large party already assembled about the breakfast table....
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The Rural Life of England, Volume 1

William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 428 pages
...circulated 1 more slowly, and at eleven there was a general move rito the drawing-room. Cards, tea, music, filled up the time till twelve, and then the...sat down to supper. I got to bed somewhere about two o 'clock ; and thus ended an evening, which I had anticipated as stiff and embarrassing, but which...
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The Rural Life of England

William Howitt - Country life - 1840 - 652 pages
...circulated more slowly, and at eleven there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea, musie, filled up the time till twelve, and then the ladies...embarrassing, but which is marked in my tablets as oiie of the most social and kindly I have had the good fortune to record on my travels. " I arose late...
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The Rural Life of England

William Howitt - Country life - 1841 - 520 pages
...be circulated more slowly, and at eleven there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea, music, filled up the time till twelve, and then the...have had the good fortune to record on my travels. " I arose late in the morning, and found the large party already assembled about Ihe breakfast table....
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Manners and Customs of the Principal Nations of the Globe, Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Manners and customs - 1845 - 364 pages
...wines began to be circulated more slowly ; and at eleven, there was a general move to the drawing-room. Cards, tea and music filled up the time till twelve,...have had the good fortune to record on my travels. "I arose late on the first morning after my arrival at Gordon Castle, and found the large party already...
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