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 must come. We are in debt to everybody: we have been invited
everywhere, and never had anything like a party since we were married,
and it won't do." "For my part, I hate parties," said Bob. "They put
your house all out of order, give all the women a sick-headache, and all
the men an indigestion; you never see anybody to any purpose; the girls
look bewitched, and the women answer you at cross-purposes, and call you
by the name of your next-door neighbor, in their agitation of mind. We
stay out beyond our usual bedtime, come home and find some baby crying,
or child who has been sitting up till nobody knows when; and the next
morning, when I must be at my office by eight, and wife must attend to
her children, we are sleepy and headachy. I protest against making
overtures to entrap some hundred of my respectable married friends into
this snare which has so often entangled me. If I had my way, I would
never go to another party; and as to giving one--I suppose, since my
empress has declared her intentions, that I shall be brought into doing
it; but it shall be under protest." "But, you see, we must keep up
society," said Marianne. "But I insist on it," said Bob, "it isn't