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Sure I thought he'd be kept back in England till the Christmas?" "He's finished with school now," said Christian. "He's going abroad for a bit after Christmas, and then he's going to Oxford!" The glory in Christian's voice conveyed more to Mrs. Twomey than any statement of fact could achieve. "Well, well! I'm proud out of him, the poor child!
And he had promised, promised faithfully to turn over a new leaf with this Christmas eve. Christmas eve was here, nay, it was come and gone for midnight had sounded and it was now Christmas morning. Still, this night must be for her as all those other nights when she had lain awake hour after hour listening in silent anguish for the footstep that did not come.
When the good old Captain heard this he was greatly rejoiced, and, as the holidays were now near, he insisted that the boys should spend Christmas before last over again, at his son's house.
Norah looked over his shoulder. On the parchment was written the following: WE, KARL HAMMERSTEIN, NORAH O'BRIAN, pledge our solemn oath Christmas Tree, that we will not attempt to visit dwarfland again, or molest the dwarfs in any way, by offering them modern inventions for which they have no use, etc., etc., or by revealing their secret chambers to the glaring light of day.
We then erected batteries; and, by daylight in the morning, everything was finished, and we were so close to the enemy that we could distinctly hear English spoken, and the reveillée beaten. On Christmas eve, as dark and cold a night as ever blew from the heavens, the breach was reported practicable, and the rising of the moon was a signal for marching to the storm.
Sometimes this barring out represented a revolt against tyranny; often it was a conventional, and half-acquiesced-in, method of showing exuberance of spirit, just before the Christmas holidays. In most of the schools the teaching was necessarily of the simplest, for the only books might be a Testament, a primer, a spelling book, and a small arithmetic. Frontier Society.
There were during the Christmas of 1861 above half a million of soldiers so to be provided the President, in his message made in December to Congress, declared the number to be above six hundred thousand and therefore in such places as Hartford trade was very brisk.
Then he pushed Baby Squealer's high-chair over to the cupboard and climbed up until he could reach the shelf where Silver Ears had put the Christmas candy. It was gone; every single piece. "Oh, I know!" remembered Buster. "Ruth Giant had a birthday party last night. I think there may be some candy in the play-room. It will do no harm to look."
They wish to give all the children of the church under eight years old the grandest Christmas tree imaginable really rich presents and they thought you might like to have it here." "What do you say, Basil!" "You were always so fond of children. You " "I never could endure them." "We all thought you might enjoy it. Indeed, I was so sure that I promised for you.
He had urged that to work right through Christmas was a tempting of Providence, but, as he explained, that was before Providence played it low down on them in permitting them to be robbed of their gold. As it was, there was only one course to pursue.
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