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After his death for he did die, though not on Christmas-day I found a lock of hair folded in paper with a date on it that was all in a secret drawer of his old desk. The date was far earlier than my first recollections of him. I reverentially burnt it with fire.
"I did what was my duty to my birth and mission," replied the monk: "if others, of my rank and condition, had done as much, as they ought to and could have done, thou hadst not penetrated so far into our country." On entering London after all these delays and all these precautions, William fixed, for his coronation, upon Christmas-day, December 25th, 1066.
"I said I was too tired to eat, Emma, and so I felt at the time; but as I became more refreshed my appetite returned," replied Alfred, laughing, "and notwithstanding your jeering me, I mean to eat some more." "How long has John been away?" said Mr Campbell. "Now nearly a fortnight," observed Mrs Campbell; "he promised to come here on Christmas-day. I suppose we shall see him to-morrow morning."
What does he keer fur me or my girl? I'll not stay wi' yoh no longer, Lo. Mornin' he'll send me t' th' lock-up, an' after" "I care for you, child," said Holmes, stooping suddenly close to the girl's livid face. "To-morrow?" she muttered. "My Christmas-day?" He wet her face while he looked over at the wretch whose life he held in his hands.
Who ever heard in the sarvice of a frigate made to sail On Christmas-day, it blowing hard, with sleet, and snow, and hail? I wish I had the fishing of your back that is so bent, I'd use the galley poker hot unto your heart's content. Here Bet and Sue Are with me too, A shivering by my side, They both are dumb, And both look glum, And watch the ebbing tide.
"So you say now; but you don't know what may happen between this and Christmas-day. Natalie, there is only one way of making sure that you will never marry Richard. Marry me." "Without papa's consent?" "Without saying a word to anybody till it's done." "Oh, Launce! Launce!" "My darling, every word you have said proves there is no other way. Think of it, Natalie, think of it." There was a pause.
He made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a slave. PHILIPPIANS ii. 7. On Christmas-day, 1851 years ago, if we had been at Rome, the great capital city, and mistress of the whole world, we should have seen a strange sight strange, and yet pleasant. All the courts of law were shut; no war was allowed to be proclaimed, and no criminals punished.
Gordon Graham watched his sister from his place near the foot of the table, and was well satisfied with her success. "If she plays her cards well she may sit at the head of this table next Christmas-day," he said to himself. After less than half-an-hour's interval, the gentlemen followed the ladies into the drawing-room, and the usual musical evening set in.
'Ah! it will have a fine effect on you to spend your Christmas-day tete-a-tete with him. Mrs. Ferrars's views underwent various modifications, like all hasty yet candid judgments. She took Mr. Kendal into favour when she found him placidly submitting to Miss Meadows's showers of words, in order to prevent her gaining access to his wife.
A studio was opened in one of Lord Edgecumbe's buildings at Plymouth, and he painted portraits of all the great folks thereabout. On Christmas-Day, Seventeen Hundred Forty-six, the Reverend Samuel Reynolds died, but before his death he fully realized that one of his children was well on the way to fame and fortune.
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