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"You'll regret that slap, Catherine," he cried with er than he'd as yet shown "Just as retted all her sins You, too, will live long enough to regret yours!"

I fled his roo what he said was only too true

The Traditional Foxworth

On Christive the fa event that would begin at ninethirty Bart wore a glow of happiness His war a shock of pleasure through"If I can't have all ht away, then I should have at least all the prestige due the owner of this house"

I smiled and covered the hand that held mine withpossible to see that your party is a huge success"

Joel sat nearby, sending out invisible vibes He was s cynically "Lord help those fools who deceive themselves," he muttered half under his breath Bart closed his ears and pretended not to hear, but I orried Someone had broken Jory's clipper ship, which had been ift to Bart It had to be Joel who had heartlessly ruined that ship that Jory had slaved over for months and months What else would he do?

My eyes er on how Joel looked at this moment, except sancti his fruitcake into tiny ers These he cheith intense concentration, using only his front teeth, much as a rabbit ate a carrot

"I'ht's party, Bart, you ht as well know that Remember what happened at your birthday party, and you should have known better Again I say it's a waste of good h I also disapprove of people who drink, who cavort and act wild on a day s to the Lord and his son We should all go down on our knees and stay there froave silent thanks for just being alive"

Since not one of us said a word, Joel went on "I know drunken men and women will eventually try to fornicate with someone other than whom they came with I remember your birthday party and ent on Sinful modern lifeNothing is the same as it used to be People kne to act decently in public then, no matter what they did behind closed doors Now nobody cares who sees them do what Women didn't bare their bosoms when I was a boy, nor pull up their skirts for every man anted them"

He riveted his cold blue eyes on ain, always pay dearly, as so at Jory fully

"The old son of a bitch,"him slip out of the room with the same stealth as he had entered

"Cindy, don't you ever let ain!" fired Bart "Nobody uses obscenities under my roof"

"Well, I'll be damned!" flared Cindy "Just the other day I overheard you calling Joel the sa And what's more, Bart Foxworth, I'll call a spade a spade-- even under your roof!"

"Go to ,your room and stay there!" bellowed Bart

"Everybody continue having fun," said Jory,