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And to see the thin face of that mother flush with unusual colour when we handed her one of those monstrous red plush albums which we had purchased jointly and in which we had all written our names in lieu of our photographs, and between the leaves of which the cattle-man had generously slipped a hundred dollar bill, was worth being blockaded for a dozen Christmases.
You see, it isn't only not having proper Christmases any more, that makes me feel sad, it's because Angel has to work so hard for me; and if I had a father, I s'pose he'd do that." "If 'e didn't he'd deserve to get What For," said Jane, decidedly. "If you was a child in a story book, your pa'd come back and be lookin' for you everywhere, on Christmas Eve; this Christmas eve as ever was."
There has not been much merriment at Honham of late years." "A merry Christmas to you, father," she said. "Thank you, Ida, the same to you; you have got most of your Christmases before you, which is more than I have.
There would be Christmases as sweet as the old ones, if not so gay; there would come a day Margaret's whole being thrilled to the thought when little forms would run ahead of John and herself up the worn path, and when their children would be gathered in Mother's experienced arms! Did life hold a more exquisite moment, she wondered, than that in which she would hear her mother praise them!
"Two years ago," she answered, in that rich and gentle tone which was a delight to the ear. "I was at home last summer, but you were away in Germany, I think." "Yes, and we looked for you in vain at Christmases and Thanksgivings." "Mamma came so often to New York that there seemed no real necessity of my coming home until I came for good. I had so much to learn, you know.
There were no boisterous "Merry Christmases" in the old Day house that morning; even Uncle Jason wiped his eyes after saying grace at the breakfast table. After all, Janice was the most self-controlled of the four. She said, midway of the meal: "I cannot believe all of that dreadful story in the paper. I want to know more of the particulars." "Oh, hush! hush!" begged her aunt. "I read it.
He referred in feeling language to the various troop-mates who had left us since the preceding Christmas, made a touching allusion to the happy home circle in which the Christmases of our boyhood had been spent, referred to the manner in which the old "Strawboots" had cut their way to glory through the dense masses of Russian horsemen on the hillside of Balaclava, and wound up appropriately by proposing the toast of "our noble selves."
A sharp tchk started the horses, and, amid a chorus of shouts, good nights and Merry Christmases, and well-worn rustic pleasantries, the loaded pung slid forward from the light into the great, ghost-white gloom beyond.
But yesterday I had a boiling bath as good a bath as could be found in a New York hotel and I am CLEAN. I woke up this morning to hear some one singing Casey Jones consequently I thought of former Christmases. My mind has been travelling back very much of late.
I wish I could make merry Christmases as these good people do, and be loved and thanked as they are," said Effie, softly, as she watched the busy men and women do their work and steal away without thinking of any reward but their own satisfaction. "You can if you will. I have shown you the way. Try it, and see how happy your own holiday will be hereafter."
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