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They laughed it off, with the rest, but after a while the girl began to cry; she had received a painful bruise. All the way home, while the others laughed and sang and chattered, Dan was troubled about this poor girl; his anxiety became a joke with the whole sleighful of people. When he parted with Alice at her door, he said, "I'm afraid I hurt Miss Langham; I feel awfully about it."
"Miriam, I do wish you would let one of the boys drive," said her mother, who had come to the door to see her off. "I prefer to do the driving, mother," replied the spoiled girl, and with a crack of the whip, the second sleighful was off after the first. It was not long before the Nesbit sleigh had met and passed the other, which was not going at a very great rate of speed. Mrs.
Each guest carried a pretty basket filled with gifts from the host and hostess, and it was nearly eleven before the last load was off, with the sleighful of young folks to keep it company. Nelson Randolph and his wife went silently back to the deserted living-room. "Seems kind of lonely, doesn't it?" she said. "Not a bit!" he replied, leading her under the mistletoe and claiming his reward.
Clark's door with another sleighful of packages which were all duly transferred to the small room where stood the little Christmas-tree. The handshake Livingstone gave John Clark as he came down the steps of the little house was the warmest he had given any man in twenty years. It was so warm that it seemed to send the blood tingling through Livingstone's heart and warm it anew.
But he heard some voices talking, and one he knew was that of Santa Claus. "Now I have brought you a whole sleighful of toys," said St. Nicholas. "Yes, and I am glad to get them," another voice answered. "The stores are almost empty and it is near Christmas time. I shall send a lot of the toys to the stores the first thing in the morning."
Had the whole sleighful been suddenly plunged into a hundred cubic feet of hydrogen gas, sound could not have ceased more abruptly for one second, and then there arose to the thousands of little laughing stars and their dignified mother, the moon, a howl which made the welkin ring. Shall I attempt to describe what had happened in the drawing of a breath?
"A hull sleighful of 'em three or four anyhow came over there with that cockney sergeant you fellers keep at the fort, lookin' for deserters. You after deserters? Well, here's hic hopin' you don't get 'em." It was all Jim Ennis wanted to know. "Come on, men," he cried, and spurred ahead, his wondering troopers following.
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