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Travelling in the interests of the well-known firm in which it is my lot to be a junior partner, I had been called upon to visit not only the capitals of Russia and Poland, but had found it also necessary to pass some weeks among the trading-ports of the Baltic; whence it came that the year was already far spent before I again set foot on English soil, and that, instead of shooting pheasants with him, as I had hoped, in October, I came to be my friend's guest during the more genial Christmastide.
I did what was possible on a Christmas eve in the way of last arrangements. But to-morrow was Christmas Day. The day after, Boxing Day. The day after that, Sunday. The whole world was dead. And all those awful days the thin yellow fog that was not fog but mere blight of darkness hung over the vast city. God spare me such another Christmastide.
Stacpoole's property, if he perseveres in his resolution to "Dublin writ" the people with whom he has to deal. So the family at Spa-hill is broken up this Christmas; father and mother are both away where I should hardly divulge, but assuredly where their Christmastide will be passed peacefully, if not joyfully. Another gentleman of these parts is being severely "Boycotted," to wit Mr.
Let us light our bonfires with a good will this coming Christmastide we who live by sun-time so often. Back from England came the Bishop full of the lore of early missions. He had enriched his zeal for broad-basing the people's worship on their own everyday earth, and for enlightening things opaque with effulgences invisible. He saw his way more clearly to further what he had at heart.
George Amberson Minafer came home for the holidays at Christmastide, in his sophomore year, probably no great change had taken place inside him, but his exterior was visibly altered.
And Dad was as good as his word. First came Christmastide, with all Master Shakespeare's fellow burgesses to dine and the house agog with preparation. No wonder John Shakespeare had need of money to live up to his estate, for next came the Twelfth Night revels with the mummers and waits to be fed and boxed at the chief bailiff's door.
Every year the Lossings give each head of a family in their employ, and each lad helping to support his mother, a turkey at Christmastide. As the business has grown, so has the number of turkeys, until it is now well up in the hundreds, and requires a special contract.
So, finally, our unaspiring old-year homily simply chimes in with the traditional spirit of Christmastide season of hopeful words and wishes, of kindness for the struggling, of encouragement for the discouraged, of charity for the so-called failures. The story is plausible.
They had grown to love her almost as one of themselves, and because of the sympathy which comes of such love they guessed that her thoughts would be turning homeward at Christmastide.
At last they had the full gale again in their faces as they reached the level of the prairies, and cast loose for what they thought was west, fearfully, tremblingly, the voyage a quarter of a mile, the danger infinitely great; for beyond lay only the cruel plains and the bitter storm this double norther of a woeful Christmastide. Once again Providence aided them, by agency of brute instinct.
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