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Constance could not have been much closer to it without being a salamander. The era of good old-fashioned Christmases, so agreeably picturesque for the poor, was not yet at an end. Yes, Samuel Povey had won the battle concerning the locus of the family Christmas. But he had received the help of a formidable ally, death. Mrs.
You can take back your morning salutation. It is not a 'merry Christmas' to you or to me; and I think we are both done with merry Christmases." "Father!" The tone in which this word was uttered was almost a cry of pain. "It is even so, my child even so," replied Mr. Delancy, in a voice of irrepressible sadness. "You have left your husband a second time.
Do you know, I'm glad now I am going home, instead of to Sterner's for Christmas. A fellow ought to be with his own folks, don't you think?" Everybody said yes heartily and there was a moment of silence in the room. Presently Kranch, whose home was in Michigan, began speaking reminiscently of the Christmases he had spent when a lad in the pine woods.
Harold and Herbert had come over on horseback, Rosie and Evelyn in the Ion carriage. They came running in with their "Merry Christmases and Happy New Years," to receive a return in kind.
Here also the especial festivals of the Christmases of 1572 and 1593 were kept by her.... The entrance to the portion of the palace built by Wolsey is by a sort of outer court of great extent, the gates of which have their pillars surmounted by a large lion and unicorn as supporters of the crown royal, and each of the side gates by a military trophy.
Simple, straightforward tales, like the man himself: old Christmases overseas, and others in many parts of Australia some that brought a sadder note into the speaker's voice, and made Norah draw herself along the grass until she came within touch of his hand. Words were never really needed between them being mates.
As for Dolly, Merry, and Bell, who are standing at the tree, they don't care about the love-riddle part, but understand the sweet-almoned portion very well. They are four, five, six years old. Patience, little people! A dozen merry Christmases more, and you will be reading those wonderful love-conundrums, too.
The bell was ringing for the old Manx service for the singing of Christmas carols. The fibres of Pete's memory were touched by it. He told of his Christmases abroad how it was summer instead of winter, and fruits were on the trees instead of snow on the ground how people who had never spoken to him before would shake hands and wish him a merry Christmas.
"I've lost track of the folks at home. I never write and they don't write me. Only once when my mother knew where I was she sent me a box at Christmas. Lucy and I got quite excited over that box, it was all the presents we'd had from outside in quite a line of Christmases. So we thought we'd celebrate." "How did you celebrate Christmas?" Eleanore asked softly.
There was a right and scientific way to treat it and that right and scientific way was thought out and administered. The child was "a case." It was taught nothing but truths and facts. Its mind was not permitted to be befogged with fairy stories, with superstitions, with Father Christmases and the like, nor yet with religious half-truths and misty fables.
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