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'Here's Jasper, remarked Dora, and in a moment there sounded a short, sharp summons at the door. Jasper it was; he came in with radiant face, his eyes blinking before the lamplight. 'Well, girls! Ha! how do you do, Miss Yule? I had just the vaguest sort of expectation that you might be here. It seemed a likely night; I don't know why.
Jonquil proved an excellent substitute for grandpapa, and Macky turned out an inexhaustible treasury of nice harmless things to eat, of funny rhymes to sing, and funny stories to tell in a dramatic manner. Still, it was a holiday spoilt. It was not enjoyed in the servants' hall nor in the housekeeper's room. No amount of Yule logs or Yule cakes could make a merry Christmas of it that year.
Next day it passed without effort into the possession of a small body of Free Staters, who were astonished to find it abandoned. Meanwhile Yule after the failure of his movement on Glencoe found his position insecure and reluctantly resolved to retire on Ladysmith, although it entailed leaving not only his supplies and ammunition but also his wounded behind him.
The bondi thanked him for what he had done, as did many other men, for the quickness and boldness of his deed had impressed them much. Grettir stayed there for Yule and was well taken care of till he left, when the bondi dismissed him handsomely. Then Grettir went East to Tunsberg to visit his brother Thorsteinn, who received him joyfully and asked him about his adventures.
'Hard times, I'm afraid, remarked Yule, as his beneficiary began to eat the luncheon with much appearance of grateful appetite. 'Very hard times. He had a small, thin, colourless countenance, with large, pathetic eyes; a slight moustache and curly beard. His clothes were such as would be worn by some very poor clerk.
It was built about the year 1160 A.D. Colonel Yule says that in these temples "there is an actual sublimity of architectural effect which excites wonder, almost awe, and takes hold of the imagination." Mr Fergusson is inclined to think this form of fane was derived from Babylonia, and probably reached Burmah, via Thibet, by some route now unknown.
On Marco Polo's omissions see Yule, op. cit., I, Introd., p. 110. Marco Polo, op. cit., p. 288. VI of this book on the art which flourished under the Mongol dynasty is interesting. See also L. Binyon, Painting in the Far East , pp. 75-7, 146-7. One of Chao Mêng-fu's horse pictures, or rather a copy of it by a Japanese artist, is reproduced in Giles, op. cit., opposite p. 159.
'But I shouldn't think there's any personal connection, said Marian. 'Very likely not. But Milvain has been invited to contribute, you see. 'Do you think he ought to have refused? 'Oh no. It's nothing to me; nothing whatever. Mrs Yule glanced at her daughter, but Marian seemed unconcerned. The subject was dismissed.
Dinner over, Amy at once made ready for her journey to Westbourne Park. 'Then you won't come? she said to her husband. 'No. I shall see your mother before I go away, but I don't care to till you have settled everything. It was half a year since he had met Mrs Yule. She never came to their dwelling, and Reardon could not bring himself to visit her.
In the seventeenth century, as we learn from some verses of Herrick, the English custom was to light the Yule log with a fragment of its predecessor, which had been kept throughout the year for the purpose; where it was so kept, the fiend could do no mischief.
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