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Updated: June 2, 2025
The stockings are duly hung for Saint Nicholas, and the holly, with its glossy leaves and scarlet berries, stands ready to be planted in the parlor, to bloom to-morrow into all kinds of rich flowers and gift-fruit. At nine o'clock the work of arranging the Christmas tree begins. The ladies retire, and after a quiet smoke by the roaring hall-fire the gentlemen follow suit. To bed, but not to sleep.
'Because then we might have a good snowstorm, and be blocked up again for a week. Venetia looked at the sky, but not a cloud was to be seen. The Doctor was glad to warm himself at the hall-fire, for it was a fresh autumnal afternoon. 'Are you cold, sir? said Venetia, approaching him. 'I am, my little maiden, said the Doctor. 'Do you think there is any chance of its snowing, Doctor Masham?
She would burn the letter here in this hall-fire when the man was gone again; and say to Janet that the letter had been from a travelling priest that was in trouble, and that she had sent the answer. "Do you know what is in the letter?" she whispered sharply. He obeyed her. "Yes, mistress," he said. "The priest was taken from her on Saturday. Mr. Bourgoign had arranged all in readiness for that."
So the young man makes his bow and goes downstairs, where the supercilious Mercury does not consider himself called upon to leave his Olympus by the hall-fire to let the young man out.
The next ballad is less gloomy than that of the willow-tree, and in it the lovely writer expresses her longing for what has charmed us all, and, as it were, squeezes the whole spirit of the fairy tale into a few stanzas: "Beside the old hall-fire upon my nurse's knee, Of happy fairy days what tales were told to me!
In the mean while my brain, fertile in expedients on most occasions, could devise no means by which I could speak to her alone, and without Charles's knowledge. I felt I must trust to chance. When I came down before dinner I found Ralph and Charles talking earnestly by the hall-fire, Ralph's hand on his brother's shoulder. "You see we are no farther forward than we were," he was saying.
"Nay," said Wamba, "never think I envy thee, brother Gurth; the serf sits by the hall-fire when the freeman must forth to the field of battle And what saith Oldhelm of Malmsbury Better a fool at a feast than a wise man at a fray."
"With what a blushing grace he falls upon his knee And takes the lady's hand and whispers, 'You are free! Ah! happy childish tales of knight and faerie! I waken from my dreams but there's ne'er a knight for me; I waken from my dreams and wish that I could be A child by the old hall-fire upon my nurse's knee." Indeed, Ottilia looked like a fairy herself: pale, small, slim, and airy.
Two silver candlesticks, that stood usually on the high shelf over the hall-fire, and a silver crucifix of Flemish work, taken from the hiding-place, were in a row on the back, with red and white flowers, between. Beneath the linen cloths a tiny flat elevation showed where the altar stone lay.
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