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But silently. They entertained three couples at their house-warming party. It was a delightful party, a credit to Ben, Betty and the finest built-in house robots the mind of Amalgamated could devise. By ten o'clock they had dropped a dozen or more random hints, but never a sales pitch. Suspense was building nicely when Betty put down an empty glass and unobtrusively pushed the button to cue Nana.
"They've been hard up for a long time, and she says as long ago as last winter she knew that girl got a pair of walking-shoes re-soled and patched, because she got it done the same place Mrs. Kittersby's cook had HERS! And the night of the house-warming I kind of got suspicious, myself.
"How long is it," asked the countess, "since any of your family have paid a visit to the Thuilliers'?" "If my memory serves me," said Phellion, "I think we were all there the Sunday after the dinner for the house-warming." "Fifteen whole days of absence!" exclaimed the countess; "and you think that nothing of importance could happen in fifteen days?"
"We drove down to bring you back to luncheon," she said. I thanked her and accepted. She was curious to hear about Asquith and its people, and I told her all I knew. "I should like to meet some of them," she explained, "for we intend having a cotillon at Mohair, a kind of house-warming, you know. A party of Mr.
Commencing his labours at Brockhurst during the closing years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Denzil Calmady completed them in 1611 with a royal house-warming. For the space of a week, during the autumn of that year, the last autumn, as it unhappily proved, that graceful and scholarly prince was fated to see, Henry, Prince of Wales, condescended to be his guest.
'No use saying you won't come, for I shall be around for you at seven o'clock with a club 'No, that's not it he writes so badly 'with a cab. Yes, that's it 'with a cab. I wonder if he can drive me up those six flights of stairs? 'There'll be something to eat, and drink, and there will be fifty or more of my draughtsmen and former employees. I'm going to give them a dinner and a house-warming.
I can't imagine what makes them so attentive to me plain, sober body, as I am what can they aim at?" "They aim at universal fascination, I suppose;" said Elinor, laughing. "And must we really go to this house-warming?" asked Mrs. Wyllys. "Elinor and I have already accepted the invitation;" said Miss Agnes. "My father wished us to go, for he really has a great respect for Mr. Hubbard."
He tumbled about me in the dull light, filling the silence with the harsh whir of pinions. I thought about that night a long, long time ago when all the people under the protection of the newly erected fort, gathered here for a house-warming. How clearly I could hear that squawking, squeaking, good-natured fiddle and the din of dancing feet!
Papa's got some of his business friends and people from around the OLD-house neighborhood coming to-night for a big dinner and 'house-warming' dreadful kind of people but mamma's got it all on her hands. She's never sat down a MINUTE; and if she did, papa would have her up again before " "Of course," said Bibbs. "Do you like the new place, Edith?"
"But," she added guardedly, "if it's a curtain-pole, I refuse to bring it out. I offered to bring one out for Lucille Carter last night, because she was in a hurry to give a house-warming, and I speared the conductor with it getting into the car; and while I was apologizing to him I knocked Mrs. Prexy's hat off with the other end." "We have all the curtain-poles we need," said Patty.
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