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Arlington had granted extra holidays, as she could scarcely get back by the end of the usual Xmas vacation." Isabel grew scarlet as she replied "that they were quite well when she left them, and that she did not return until the first of February." Lady Ashton was gratified to see that she was successful so far.
It is delightful. I accept your challenge, and do hereby undertake to talk to you at tremendous length the first time we meet again about the making of another novelist. Not that he, worse luck, has had anything like such varied experiences. I hope you will go on with the second volume you promise. You will find a capital chapter for it in the Pall Mall Magazine Xmas number.
When I have said that it is the Old Homestead and Xmas Eve, and that the farmer is in great trouble and throwing tamarack at the fire, surely you ought to guess! The Old Homestead was mortgaged! Ten years ago, reckless with debt, crazed with remorse, mad with despair and persecuted with rheumatism, John Enderby had mortgaged his farmstead for twenty-four dollars and thirty cents.
But Louis accounted for his silence to her entire satisfaction, and promised to send an extra one at an early date. Isabel was to spend this Xmas with the Morningtons, who with with the exception of Harry, were to return to Europe in February.
There it was in all its luscious sallowness, and the smacking of our lips betokened an appreciation of all that we had lost in the weeks gone by. Many, alas! missed more than their butter. Speaking generally, the 'Xmas breakfast consisted of black tea, khaki bread, and golden syrup an appetising rainbow on a "merry" morning.
"i remain your sincerely "ELIZABETH NEWTON." The last letter in my collection seems written almost within measurable distance of the Christmas-card era. The sheet is headed by a beautifully embossed device of some holly in red and green, wishing the recipient of the letter a merry Xmas and a happy new year, while the border is crimped and edged with blue.
It looked as if I had everything to gain, including the furs, and nothing to lose. Alas, how little I knew! "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglay." Burns. Carter Brooks ambled into the room just as I sealed it and stood gazing down at me. "You're quite a Person these days, Bab," he said. "I suppose all the customary Xmas kisses are being saved this year for what's his name."
"i remain your sincerely The last letter in my collection seems written almost within measurable distance of the Christmas-card era. The sheet is headed by a beautifully embossed device of some holly in red and green, wishing the recipient of the letter a merry Xmas and a happy new year, while the border is crimped and edged with blue.
She began to speak of it to Richard. "Roger will be with us for Xmas," she used to say. "We must think out some surprises for him...." To which Richard would answer tensely, "I s'pose so." That always chilled her, and she would drop the subject, feeling that after all there was no need to speak of it just yet.
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