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"Of course I got to take down my door every time I comes in or out," remarked Willock, regarding his structure with much complacency, "but they's nothing else to do, and I got to be occupied." When he had transported the stove to the cove, he set it up with a tingle of expectant pleasure. It was to be his day of housewarming, not because the weather had grown cold, but that he might celebrate.
It seemed that we had hardly stopped looking through the skeleton supports at the bay before the plaster was drying on the solid walls; that we had hardly ceased walking on the great naked flooring beams before the smooth floor itself was palpitating under the feet of the dancers at the housewarming.
Nevertheless, I have no doubt that the commonest carpenter in the smallest village would have laughed at the house we built, and how we rectified gaps with grass and moss, how things warped one way and others shrunk the contrary, how nails stuck out their points and their heads were utterly lost, how screws were such a time before they would ever screw for us, how, animated by the clerk of the works, few thought of chopped fingers and hammered hands, how others ceased to shriek at the monstrous spiders, centipedes, lizards and small snakes, appearing every minute in the grass and moss; and now one and all agreed, that, in spite of every impediment, we should have the housewarming dinner and the first usage of our new mansion on the first Christmas-day we had ever spent on this unknown but lonely island.
Later, in bed, Jennifer sighed contentedly. "I love it here," she said. Oliver snuggled closer. "I've been thinking about two weeks from today," she went on. "Two weeks?" he mumbled. "For the housewarming." "Housewarming." He put a hand on her breast. "Mmmm," she said. "I want to invite everybody! "O.K." Oliver moved one leg farther up on hers. He put his mouth against her neck.
"That's it," exclaimed my client, slapping his thigh, and turning triumphantly to me, he continued, "You're all right, Crocker, and know enough to win a damned big suit, but you're not the man to steer a delicate thing of this kind." This is how, to my infinite relief, the Celebrity came to engineer the matter of the housewarming; and to him it was much more congenial.
"'Fraid so," she said more softly. "Can you make it to the housewarming?" "I don't think so." "Damn. What are you doing?" "I've got a book," she said. "Aha. Romance. A blonde hulk who will carry you away." Oliver was looking levelly into her eyes. A small smile turned the corners of her mouth down. "I'm waiting for someone my size." They were in her office. Oliver registered that it was very warm.
And that night, when Miss Maggie gazed at herself in the glass, she looked so happy that she appeared to be almost as young as Mellicent herself! Christmas again brought all the young people home for the holidays. It brought, also, a Christmas party at James Blaisdell's home. It was a very different party, however, from the housewarming of a year before.
But it is a sort of housewarming, you see; and our friends are in no hurry. Come in, Mr. Taylor, and sit down." The tinker, or rather reduced ironmonger, was nothing loath, and entered and took a seat. "I shall lose a quarter, but never mind," he said. "Well, really, I could hardly believe my eyes when I looked in! It seemed as if I was flung back again into last night, all of a sudden."
At his desire, she went hunting, which was his symbol of happiness, and she ordered porridge for breakfast, which was his symbol of morality. But when he came home on the afternoon before the housewarming he found himself a slave, an intruder, a blunderer. Carol wailed, "Fix the furnace so you won't have to touch it after supper. And for heaven's sake take that horrible old door-mat off the porch.
They brewed ale downstairs and pumped it directly from the bar. He didn't know how many people would come to the housewarming some would rather drink wine or the hard stuff. Five gallons of ale should be enough. He bought six, to be on the safe side. He had lunch in Deweys, hoping to calm down. But the more he thought about Suzanne, the more confused he got.
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