But it wants only two days to the fete ; I received the invitation yesterday; made Mouston post hither with my wardrobe, and only this morning discovered my misfortune; and from now till the day after to- morrow, there isn't a single fashionable tailor who will undertake to make me a suit."
"Yes, it was Aramis who brought me the invitation."
Forty-eight hours later the unbelievable had happened; every one had refused the Mingotts'
invitation except the Beauforts and old Mr.
The invitation had come at a time when I was very busy with my school work, as it was the beginning of our school year.
A few days afterward he sent me an invitation to deliver an address at the next meeting of the Educational Association.
Yet no
invitation of Jerry's could induce Michael to join in the fun.
He protested that, except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but even pointedly included him in her
invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before.
From every point of view, I feel bound to insist on his accepting Sir James's
invitation. I have only to be firm, and the thing is done.
Rebecca was now thirteen; she had played the melodeon, led the singing, delivered her aunts' invitation with an air of great worldly wisdom, and he, concluding that she must be a youthful pillar of the church, called upon her with the utmost simplicity.
Rebecca said that half past five was their supper hour, and then accepted an invitation to drive home with Mrs.
It was the arrival of this very
invitation while the Westons were at Hartfield, which made their presence so acceptable; for though her first remark, on reading it, was that "of course it must be declined," she so very soon proceeded to ask them what they advised her to do, that their advice for her going was most prompt and successful.
Shall I promise the donkey king an
invitation to Ozma's party?" asked Dorothy of the Rainbow's Daughter, who was flitting about the room like a sunbeam because she could never keep still.