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Jasper Trenoweth! Peace on earth and good-will You will bear no malice by that time. So a merry Christmas, and a merry Christmas-box! likewise the compliments of the season, and a happy New Year to you! Where are you going to spend Christmas, Mr. Trenoweth eh? I am thinking of passing it by the sea. You will, perhaps, try the sea too, only you will be in it.
I bring her home a fine eleven-inch-long branch of red coral for her Christmas-box. What hast thou to do with it? what's that to thee? who art thou? whence comest thou, O dark lantern of Antichrist? Answer, if thou art of God. Wouldst thou everlastingly leave it there, or wouldst thou pluck it out with thy grinders? Answer me, O thou ram of Mahomet, since thou art one of the devil's gang.
Sarah went to the door, and there was a movement and bustle in the hall, at the sound of which Bridgie nodded complacently. "The Parcels Delivery van! I thought something must be coming. Have you any change, Jack? I've nothing smaller than sixpence, and the man will want a Christmas-box a few coppers, perhaps." "Oh, give the poor beggar half a crown.
When they see us they throw everything away and run. If we catch them, they put up their hands and say, 'Pas de mal, Alsatien. But we're used to that trick. We just go through them like butter and say, 'Pour vous! A little étrenne, you know, monsieur, what you call 'Christmas-box'!" He laughed at some grim recollection. "Deutschen Hunde! Stink-preussen! Ja!" It was the Alsatian who was speaking.
How can I be like a dustman that rings for a Christmas-box at your hall-door? I never was there in my life. I never left at your door a copy of verses provocative of an annual gratuity, as your noble honor styles it. Who are you? If you are the man I take you to be, it must have been you who asked the publisher for my book, and not I who sent it in, and begged a gratuity of your worship.
"No; maybe he gave me a Christmas-box or so; he's very good to a poor boy like me in that way, is Mr. Keegan." "In whose employment were you six months ago?" "In Mr. Macdermot's; yourself knows that well enough." "And Mr. Macdermot and Mr. Keegan were great friends at that time; weren't they?" "Faix they were not; I never seed much frindship betwixt 'em."
He pulled something out of his pocket, and spoke still lower; but I caught a sentence here and there: "My Christmas-box, and what aunt gave me, would it be enough?" his voice was very earnest indeed. I saw something which reminded me of sunshine steal over the father's face as he looked down on his blue-eyed boy.
Everybody with whom we have had to do, in any manner of service, expects a Christmas-box; but, in most cases, a shilling is quite a satisfactory amount. We have had holly and mistletoe stuck up on the gas-fixtures and elsewhere about the house.
An early Christmas-box he did receive in the shape of a very hurried note from his friend Burgo. "This will be brought to you by Stickling," the note said; but who Stickling was Vavasor did not know. "I send the bill. Couldn't you get the money and send it me, as I don't want to go up to town again before the thing comes off? You're a trump; and will do the best you can.
She straightened out the letter and folded it, put it in her pocket and returned home. Another letter was waiting for her there. It was from the parson: "So you sent us a Christmas-box after all! That was just like my runaway, all innocent acting and make-believe. What joy we had of it!
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