THE CAREY HOUSEWARMING XXVIII.

The housewarming could not be until the later autumn, Mrs. Carey had decided, for although most of the living rooms could be finished, Cousin Ann's expensive improvements were not to be set in motion until Bill Harmon heard from Mr. Hamilton that his tenants were not to be disturbed for at least three years.

On the twentieth it suddenly occurred to Mother Carey that this typical New England feast day would be just the proper time for the housewarming, so the Lord children, the Pophams, and the Harmons were all bidden to come at seven o'clock in the evening.

We are having a housewarming this evening at seven.

" XXVII THE CAREY HOUSEWARMING The housewarming was at its height, and everybody agreed once in every ten minutes that it was probably the most beautiful party that had ever happened in the history of the world.

" XXVII THE CAREY HOUSEWARMING The housewarming was at its height, and everybody agreed once in every ten minutes that it was probably the most beautiful party that had ever happened in the history of the world.

Oh, no, I remember she said the party was in the nature of a housewarming.

At the end of them was a piece entitled Clarendon's Housewarming; and after that his Epitaph, both containing bitter reflexions against that earl.

[Fr.], dish of tea, ridotto^, rout^; housewarming; ball, festival &c; smoker, smoker-party; sociable

He sent a housewarming card to the new address and said that he missed her, too.

We'll have a housewarming!"

"For the housewarming.

" "Housewarming."

" At the hospital the following day, he invited Dan to the housewarming.

"Can you make it to the housewarming?" "I don't think so.

The last of the warrior-lovers invited the entire bar to the housewarming and went home.

"Speaking of whichare you coming to the housewarming?" "Saturday, right?" "Yeahmiddle of the day, anytime.

Be true, she had told him at the housewarming.

"Jacky called me after your housewarming.

Guided by this conversation, and by shrewd observations of her own, Sylvia had insisted, even to the point of strenuousness, upon wearing to this first housewarming a cloth skirt and coat, tempering the severity of this costume with a sufficiently feminine and beruffled blouse of silk.

I am by myself on week-nights from six to twelve; and I should enjoy a housewarming.

We'll have a housewarming and invite the ranger to dinner.

Then I mumble off into an indistinctness, whence the nouns "Housewarming," "Bobby," "Gold Coast," crop out audibly.