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To His Excellency President Lincoln, Washington, D. C.: I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty five thousand bales of cotton. W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General.
"Shall I give you ten golden words for a Christmas-gift? Will you hide them in your heart, and be happy?" "I will," answered Cristobal. "They are these," said the Child with a voice of wondrous sweetness: "Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you." Cristobal repeated the words, a soft light stealing over his face.
"He told me that he could not have afforded to keep up the Schloss without your help, but aside from the expenses of the house he had plenty, plenty." "And Hilda?" "Oh, the Baroness is a millionaire. Her aunt in Heidelberg died more than a year ago and left her all her fortune. Max never got a pfennig of it though, even in a Christmas-gift."
One of Punch's expressions of poetic affection is still preserved by a little girl who is now grown up, and has little girls of her own. It was attached to a Christmas-gift a locket containing a scrap of blue-gray wool. And here it is: "Punch Hutton is ready to vow and declare That his friend Milly Barrett's a brick.
Allie stood before the glorious wood fire, around which we were all gathered awaiting the summons to dinner, gazing intently into its glowing depths, and evidently sunk in such deep meditation as to be oblivious, for the moment, of her surroundings, and of what she was doing; for her doll, a new and much prized Christmas-gift from uncle Rutherford, and a beauty, hung disregarded, head downwards, in the hand which had sunk unconsciously by her side, while, with the forefinger of the other pressed upon her rosy little lips, she seemed to be pondering some weighty matter.
"You have never been an idler, but it seems to be time now for you to begin. Let your vacation go on till next spring. That is my prescription for you." "Ah, ha, mamma!" laughed Rosie, "the captain forbids Christmas-gift making for us younger ones, and I'm mighty glad grandpa forbids it to you. 'Misery loves company, you know."
"Nelly's child!" he said, stroking the hand, smoothing the fair hair. All day he had said only that, "Nelly's child!" Very like her she was, the little Nell who used to save her cents to buy a Christmas-gift for him, and bring it with flushed cheeks, shyly, and slip it on his plate.
To His Excellency President Lincoln, Washington, D. C.: I beg to present you as a Christmas-gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about twenty five thousand bales of cotton. W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General.
Eleanor, the eldest, who as princess could only give a gold ring, when Duchesse de Bar brought as a Christmas-gift a leathern dressing-case, containing a comb, a mirror silver-gilt, and a silver bodkin, so much valued by the King that he kept them with him as long as he lived.
'Well, gentlemen, 'Christmas-gift'; it's a fine morning, you must go out and taste it, he said, in a cheery voice, which made me feel fresher and better at once, and which brought a response from every man in the dressing-room. Someone asked promptly how long we should be there. 'I can't tell you, sir, but some little time; several hours. There was a groan.
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