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"Let us take Oscar with us," said Alfred; "he is very swift, and may run them down; we never can get up with them in our snow-shoes." "I wonder whether they will get a turkey," said Emma, after the hunting party had left. "I think it will be difficult," said Mrs Campbell; "but they will try all they can." "I hope they will; for Christmas-day without a turkey will be very un-English."
A deep purple hue was on the horizon every morning and evening, opposite to the rising and setting sun, and was a sure indication of excessive heat. On the 23rd I sent Flood and Lewis to the N.E., with instructions to return on Christmas-day.
He read much about it; and in the months of July, August, and September he wrote a 'history of the progress of electro-magnetism, which he published in Thomson's 'Annals of Philosophy. Soon afterwards he took up the subject of 'Magnetic Rotations, and on the morning of Christmas-day, 1821, he called his wife to witness, for the first time, the revolution of a magnetic needle round an electric current.
It being a fine, light, moonshine morning, and so home round the city, and stopped and dropped money at five or six places, which I was the willinger to do, it being Christmas-day, and so home, and there find my wife in bed, and Jane and the maids making pyes, and so I to bed, and slept well, and rose about nine, and to church, and there heard a dull sermon of Mr.
'We shall not have a party on Christmas-day, shall we, mamma? asked John. 'None, excepting our own family, John, replied Mrs. Mortimer. 'I hope both your uncles will be with us, and your grandpapa and grandmamma have promised to come over from Cannon Hill. The Mortimers from Haversly too I expect, and these I think will complete our circle 'round the Christmas fire.
Branwell expected to have a short leave of absence from his employment as a clerk on the Leeds and Manchester Railway, in which he had been engaged for five months. Anne arrived before Christmas-day.
"Say them, say them!" cried the artist, filling his glass again, while the lansquenet, approaching the table, fixed his eyes steadily on the beaker, and in an embarrassed manner, repeated: "On Christmas-day, when Jesus Christ, To save us sinners came, A poor, sore-wounded soldier dared To call upon his name.
He thought she had come out of her grave in the old darkness, to ask why her father was sitting alone on Christmas-day. And he felt he had no answer to give his little ghost, but one he would be ashamed for her to hear. But the little girl saw him now. She walked up to him with a childish stateliness stumbling once or twice on what seemed her long shroud.
"I was silent, and he resumed, "'I wish I could be of real, unmistakeable use to anyone! But I fear I am not good enough to have that honour done me. "Next morning, that was Christmas-day, he went out for a walk alone, apparently oppressed with the thought with which the serious part of our conversation on the preceding evening had closed.
When the heart is once given up to God, such vanities in a good degree die of themselves. Hester continues to grow in grace, and in knowledge. Last Christmas-day she was appointed under teacher in the school, and many people think that some years hence, if any thing should happen to Mrs. Crew, Hester may be promoted to be head mistress.
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