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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

"Penrod and Sam"

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CHAPTER XXIII. THE PARTY
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| Miss Amy Rennsdale |
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| At Home |
| Saturday, the twenty-third |
| from three to six |
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| R.s.v.p. Dancing |
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This little card, delicately engraved, betokened the hospitality
incidental to the ninth birthday anniversary of Baby Rennsdale,
youngest member of the Friday Afternoon Dancing Class, and, by
the same token, it represented the total social activity (during
that season) of a certain limited bachelor set consisting of
Messrs. Penrod Schofield and Samuel Williams. The truth must be
faced: Penrod and Sam were seldom invited to small parties; they
were considered too imaginative. But in the case of so large an
affair as Miss Rennsdale's, the feeling that their parents would
be sensitive outweighed fears of what Penrod and Sam might do at
the party. Reputation is indeed a bubble, but sometimes it is
blown of sticky stuff.


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