What is "spences"

Usage examples of "spences".

Mallard had been showing his friends a number of little drawings which he had never offered to let her or the Spences see.

Bradshaw of Manchester, old acquaintances of the Spences and of Miriam.

CHAPTER VI CAPTIVE TRAVELLERS He had taken leave of the Spences and Mrs.

On landing at Naples, she had imagined that her position among the Spences and their friends would not be greatly different from that she had held at Bartles.

He had put aside repeated invitations from the Spences, because of the doubt whether he could trust himself within sight of the Mediterranean.

The Spences had timed their arrival in Rome so as to be able to spend a few days with certain friends, undisturbed by bell-clanging and the rush of trippers, before at length returning to England.

It was Thursday, and the Spences had decided to start for London on Friday night.

But had it a connection with that curious surmise she had formed during the first hour of her conversation with the Spences, and with Miriam herself--that an unexpected intimacy was coming about between Miriam and Mallard?

On the following day, the Spences dined from home, and Miriam, who had excused herself from accompanying them, sat through the evening in their drawing-room.

She understood now what Ii ad determined the Spences to make their abode once more in London.

A few days later, the Spences gathered friends about their dinner-table.

The Spences noted this cheerlessly, and could not but remark a bitterness that here and there revealed itself in her short, dry letters.

Neither would she accept the invitations of the Spences, though Eleanor was with her frequently, and became her nearest friend.