This was approved of, but postponed for a day or two to allow for preparations and invitations.
Past bows and invitations, Past interview, and vow, Past what ourselves can estimate, -- That makes the quick of woe!
Then there came invitations to speak at Chicago University, and before the Fortnightly Club, Chicago, all around 1916-17.
"The invitations are given for this evening," said the coadjutor, "but the violins will not begin to play until to-morrow morning."
Yet I shall not wonder if all our invitations should be rejected: for there is a pleasure in being considerable at home, which is not easily resisted.
These repeated insults were not to be endured by an imperious nobility. Such invitations became less cordial--less frequent--in time they ceased altogether.
But being shy and retiring persons, with no natural inclination for their part, they lived as much as possible in the sylvan solitude of Skuytercliff, and when they came to town, declined all invitations on the plea of Mrs. van der Luyden's health.
They'll run as fast as geese--don't you see they're web-footed?" These were the cries which the soldiers vaguely understood to be jeers, and probably threats. But every one seemed disposed to give invitations of this spirited kind rather than to act upon them.
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