Chiverses

` ` Tomorrow, '' Mrs. Welland called after him, ` ` we'll do the Chiverses and the Dallases ''; and he perceived that she was going through their two families alphabetically, and that they were only in the first quarter of the alphabet.

The Age of Innocence 1920

Nevertheless, as the day for the Sillerton reception approached, May began to show a natural solicitude for his welfare, and to suggest a tennis match at the Chiverses ', or a sail on Julius Beaufort's cutter, as a means of atoning for her temporary desertion.

The Age of Innocence 1920

Firmly narrowing upward from this wealthy but inconspicuous substratum was the compact and dominant group which the Mingotts, Newlands, Chiverses and Mansons so actively represented.

The Age of Innocence 1920

As her mother had been a Rushworth, and her last unhappy marriage had linked her to one of the crazy Chiverses, New York looked indulgently on her eccentricities; but when she returned with her little orphaned niece, whose parents had been popular in spite of their regrettable taste for travel, people thought it a pity that the pretty child should be in such hands.

The Age of Innocence 1920

NEWLAND Archer arrived at the Chiverses 'on Friday evening, and on Saturday went conscientiously through all the rites appertaining to a week-end at Highbank.

The Age of Innocence 1920

NEWLAND ARCHER arrived at the Chiverses’ on Friday evening, and on Saturday went conscientiously through all the rites appertaining to a week-end at Highbank.

XV. Book I 1920

If there is one, neither the Mingotts nor the Mansons belong to it; no, nor the Newlands or the Chiverses either.

VI. Book I 1920

Firmly narrowing upward from this wealthy but inconspicuous substratum was the compact and dominant group which the Mingotts, Newlands, Chiverses and Mansons so actively represented.

VI. Book I 1920

“Tomorrow, ” Mrs. Welland called after him, “we’ll do the Chiverses and the Dallases”; and he perceived that she was going through their two families alphabetically, and that they were only in the first quarter of the alphabet.

IX. Book I 1920

He felt a distinct disappointment on learning that she was away; and almost immediately remembered that, only the day before, he had refused an invitation to spend the following Sunday with the Reggie Chiverses at their house on the Hudson, a few miles below Skuytercliff.

The Age of Innocence 1920