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give us all a bright smile

"I just love parties, I always have, I alill

Makes the heart beat faster Makes old bones feel

young again I can tell it's going to be a jolly s

one tonight"

Two or three times Trevor said that--with less

conviction each time, as still not one pair of those

headlights clih to reach our drive No

one rang our bell, banged our door knocker

The musicians were in position under the

rotunda, on a dais that had been constructed especially

for the dual

stairways They tuned their instruments over and over

again as h-heeled fancy slippers

began to ache I sat again on an elegant chair and