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CHAPTER I
Babbitt was fond of his friends, he loved the importance of being host and shouting, "Certainly, you're going to have smore chicken -- the idea! " and he appreciated the genius of T. Cholmondeley Frink, but the vigor of the cocktails was gone, and the more he ate the less joyful he felt. Then the amity of the dinner was destroyed by the nagging of the Swansons.