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CHAPTER XXI HALLOWE’EN
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“Never since the world began
And never till the next begins
Will greater things be done by man
Than this same company.”
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’M going to have a party to-night," announced Theodore, coming into the study on a morning in late October. Mrs. Lee and the two girls looked up from their work in astonishment2. "To-night!" they said in chorus.
"I think it's about my turn to 'entertain,'" went on Ted3 in a mock aggrieved4 tone. "Father opened the house to the Guild5 last week, mother had the Mothers' Meeting here-297- yesterday, Beatrice has company all the time, and I'm still picking peanut shells, left from Miss Billy's Lawn Fête, out of the grass. Don't you think that I deserve a 'function' to-night?"
"It seems to me that your arrangements are being made rather late in the day," laughed Mrs. Lee. "One usually plans for a party a day or two beforehand."
"Not for this kind of an entertainment," explained Theodore. "This is a sudden inspiration of mine—planned 'on the spur of the instant,' as Mrs. Canary would say. If you'll let me use the gasoline range to-night, that's all I'll ask. I'm going to give a pancake party."
"What's a pancake party?" inquired Miss Billy.
"Hist!" returned Theodore mysteriously. "'Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon,' is my motto. The ghosts and the witches walk abroad to-night, and we shall fitly celebrate. So much you shall know-298- and no more. Miss Billy, if you offer to make me a rarebit in your chafing6 dish to-night, I shall courteously7 accept; and mother, a bottle of stuffed olives, three bunches of radishes and a fruit cake would be delicate attentions on your part."
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repartee
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astonishment
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aggrieved
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chafing
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plumes
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shrill
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smoothly
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disapproval
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elegance
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vessel
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foretell
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memento
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maiden
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graceful
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bouquet
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delightful
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longing
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missionary
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pitcher
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maple
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banking
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