Voces Populi Author:F. Anstey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AT A DINNER PARTY In the Hall Guest discovered removing coat and hat, which are taken by a Man with a Reproving Eye, amidst a grieved silence. Butle... more »r (to Subordinates, in ghostly whisper). Tell 'em they can send up as soon as they please -- now. The Guest (to himself, on the stairs). I am the last man then ? Kept them all waiting, too, I shouldn't wonder. . . . / don't care -- they shouldn't ask a man to dine out the very evening he's been -- (catching sight of himself in the mirror). Jove ! I mustn't go in looking like that, though -- or they'll see what's the matter. [Assumes a jaunty smile. In the Drawing-Room Chorus Of Starving Guests (in undertone). Too bad, you know -- can't understand it! ... -- No one has any right to do this sort of thing, don't care who he is! ... Generally so punctual here. ... I make it a rule -- never wait over five minutes past the hour for any one. . . . Quite right too,« less