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He felt a distinct disappoint that she ay; 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 o of the noisy friendly parties at Highbank, with coasting, ice-boating, sleighing, long tra and milder practical jokes He had just received a box of new books from his London book-seller, and had preferred the prospect of a quiet Sunday at ho-rooram, and told the servant to send it iie didn't object to her visitors' suddenly changing their minds, and that there was always a room to spare in her elastic house