She was delighted to see her father look comfortable, and very much pleased with herself for contriving things so well; but the quiet prosings of three such women made her feel that every
evening so spent was indeed one of the long
evenings she had fearfully anticipated.
A girl was "nice" or she was "not nice." If a nice girl, she had a young man who came to her house to see her on Sunday and on Wednesday
evenings. Sometimes she went with her young man to a dance or a church social.
At a certain corner he came to a standstill, proposing to himself the question of turning back toward the showy and fashionable restaurant in which he usually dined on the
evenings of his especial luxury.
Certain
evenings during the week she and her husband attended the opera or sometimes the play.
The social
evenings took place on alternate Mondays.
But I suppose you'll have to cram in the
evenings."
I only wished to say..." (he wanted to repeat a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that
evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight pour le Roi de Prusse!"
If he could have heard what her parents were saying that
evening, if he could have put himself at the point ov view of the family and have heard that Kitty would be unhappy if he did not marry her, he would have been greatly astonished, and would not have believed it.
You are, therefore, your own master till seven o'clock in the
evening; but at seven o'clock you must hold yourself in readiness with two horses."
gave a farewell party in honor of Anne and Gilbert one
evening at the home of Josie Pye, choosing that place, partly because Mr.
Yet during the whole of that day he was haunted with a vague uneasiness, at the bottom of which was the fear lest Rosa should not come in the
evening to pay him her usual visit.
In the
evening he cut out the work, and went to bed early, that he might get up and begin betimes next day; but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand.