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"You bet we are, Hermy!" added Spike. "Will you pipe the turk'?"
"We have been waiting for you," continued Ravenslee, placing a chair for
her, "you see--er--you are to be our guest of honour--if you will?"
"Sure you are!" nodded Spike, "and I'm head-waiter, eater-in-chief t'
the turk' while she lasts, an' chief mourner when she's gone--so now
I'll go an' make th' tea, only don't begin without me--a fair start an'
all together, see?" and he vanished into the kitchen.
"But--a whole turkey!" said Hermione, viewing it with feminine,
knowledgeful eyes, "and then all this ham and tongue and--Mr. Geoffrey,
how extravagant of you!" And she shook her shapely head at him
reprovingly but with a smile curving her red lips; and lo! there was the
shining curl above her eyebrow again, more wantonly alluring than usual.
"Whatever made you buy so much?"
"Mr. Pffeffenfifer!" answered Ravenslee, staring at the radiant curl,
whereupon she, becoming aware of it, would have sent it into immediate
retirement among its many fellows but that he stayed her humbly.


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