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Stockbridge, before we quarrel." Soon we were all restored to our equanimity, and laying plans for future meetings. Next morning, with many hearty farewells, and having promised to spend Christmastide with them, I turned my horse homewards, and went my solitary way. Jim was going on with them to see them settled. IV. Father and Son There is a long period of dull prosperity coming to our friends.
To sit at Christmastide in a large lofty room before a meagre fire of sputtering smoky logs, with Vesuvius wrapped from crest to base in a white mantle of new fallen snow, and with an icy tramontana from the bleak Abruzzi howling round the house, bending the bay trees and penetrating into every corner of the chamber, is by no means the ideal picture of a winter in the Sunny South; yet this is only what the traveller must be prepared to face, and is very likely to obtain.
If her mother was harsh to her, he always remembered that Christmastide evening when he first visited his Uncle Kalle, and when Anna, weeping and abashed, had crept into the house, soon to be a mother. Little Anna, with the mind of a merry child, whom everybody liked. What had become of her now? One evening, as Morten was not at liberty, he ran thither.
He sorely wanted to see Dorothy again, and as the days rapidly passed he recked not of the disappointments of the past, but only thought of the few days which intervened between them and Christmas. Surely the rumour must be wrong. There would never be two weddings at the Hall this Christmastide. He, at least, would not believe it.
His blanket wrapped around him, his staff on the safe inner side, he lay down upon a shelf of stone and slept as peacefully as in his cabin on the level mesa, from which two motives had driven him abroad. Something had warned him that this approaching Christmastide might be his last, and that the time of which he had often dreamed was to come.
Michael here, and then he will leave for London in the course of the week. We have heard nothing of Alfgar we fear there is no hope; but the prince clings to it, and says his dream will come true, and that Alfgar has yet a great work to do. Christmas Eve, 1006. O happy happy Christmastide! All griefs seem hushed and all joys sanctified by the blessed mystery of the Incarnation.
She saw the hillside of Judea, where the shepherds kept their night-watch by their flocks, and all the mystery and wonder of the first great Christmastide seemed to vibrate through her heart, as the deep organ prelude suddenly filled the air with the jubilant chords of "Joy to the world, the Lord has come." Presently the music changed, and the girls looked around expectantly.
"Save that they are kept from home and friends, I would have them as happy as may be," the king answered; "but I would have none presume on what mercy came to you, Jarl Osmund, for the sake of the Christmastide message." "I think that none will do so," Osmund said.
Again, we describe as "sad" some people who are not at all sorrowful. We say a person is a "sad" liar when we mean that he is a hopeless liar. The word tide, which we now apply to the regular rise and fall of the sea, used to mean in Old English "time;" and it still keeps this meaning in the words Christmastide, Whitsuntide, etc.
"King Alfred," I said, "I have heard the bishop tell, in the great church here, of a king who slew the guiltless at Christmastide. There was nought too hard for any to say of that man. Moreover, I have heard strange and sweet words of peace at this time, of forgiveness of enemies and of letting go of vengeance.
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