He had returnedreturnto a late dinnerdinner, after some days ' absence , and now walkedwalkup to Hartfield to say that all were well in Brunswick Square .
We had been wanderingwander, indeed , in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning ; but since dinnerdinner( Mrs. Reed , when there was no company , dined early ) the cold winter windwindhad broughtbringwith it cloudscloudso sombre , and a rainrainso penetrating , that further out-door exercise was now out of the question .
I knew the next day that a letter containing the key had , by the first post , gonegooff to his London apartments ; but in spite of -- or perhaps just on account of -- the eventual diffusion of this knowledge we quite let him alone till after dinnerdinner, till such an hour of the evening , in fact , as might best accord with the kind of emotion on which our hopes were fixed .
And when Dante made that noisenoiseafter dinnerdinnerand then putputup her hand to her mouth : that was heartburn .
Dr. Livesey camecomelate one afternoon to see the patient , took a bit of dinnerdinnerfrom my mother , and wentgointo the parlour to smoke a pipe until his horse should come down from the hamlet , for we had no stabling at the old Benbow .
" Them men would eat and drink if we was all in our graves , " saidsaythe indignant cook , who indeed had a real grievancegrievance; and the outraged sentiment of the kitchen was avengedavengeby a bad and hasty dinnerdinner, which the Doctor , though generally " very particular , " swallowedswallowwithout remark .