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Always she had wanted to have a happy Christmas Eve, and she had never had one since Franklin Merriam died. At last she wrote: "I am going to have a house-warming at Christmas-time: only five guests, and you, Nick, are the principal one. The others, are Mrs. Harland, Mr. Falconer and his bride, and little Miss Wilkins, your school-teacher at Lucky Star.
The banquet being over, Faustus conducted the prince and princess back to the palace. But, before they had gone far, happening to turn their heads, they saw the whole castle blown up, and all that had been prepared for the occasion vanish at once in a vast volume of fire. One Christmas-time Faustus gave a grand entertainment to certain distinguished persons of both sexes at Wittenberg.
And some used to thank false gods and ancient heroes, who, perhaps, never really lived at all. And some, perhaps the greater number, thanked nothing and no one, but just enjoyed themselves, and took no thought, as too many do now at Christmas-time. So the world went on, Christmas after Christmas; and the times of that ignorance, as St. Paul says, God winked at.
But if there was no warning in the weather, there were other signs of Christmas-time not to be mistaken: a certain foolish leaping of the heart in one's own breast, as if the dead raptures of childhood were stirred in their graves by the return of the happy season; and in Venice, in weary, forlorn Venice, there was the half- unconscious tumult, the expectant bustle which cities feel at the approach of holidays.
Later still she writes: "We all have our trials and vexations but if one's home is happy, then the rest is comparatively nothing." They had an unusually merry Christmas-time at Windsor, and they danced into the new year, in the old English style only varying it by a very poetic and impressive German custom. As the clock struck twelve, a flourish of trumpets was blown.
"Then," said Cotter, "the beach is the place where we shall have to meet them, and the strand is where our trenches ought to be." There was no answering that argument. Even Haines gave way. "With barbed wire entanglements," said Cotter, "down to the water's edge." The weather round about Christmas-time was extraordinarily severe in Ballyhaine.
The extravagance she had noticed on her first Sunday was not repeated to the same extent. Mrs. Staunton seemed decidedly better, and Effie gave herself up with a thankful heart to her work. It was now the middle of winter, close upon Christmas-time. The weather outside was bitterly cold, although, in the ward, Effie scarcely felt this.
Many of them were Quakers many were retail shopkeepers. She even frequented the little branch Ebenezer, on Rosebury Green; and it was only by her charities and kindness at Christmas-time, that the Rev. Dr. Potter, the rector at Rosebury, knew her. The old clergy, you see, live with the county families.
"You see, I knew it was no use writing to her friends," he continued, "for, if she were with them, she would tell them not to answer. But it is different with Pandiani. If she has got any musical engagement in Naples, or if she has gone to Malta, he would know. It seems hard that at Christmas-time we should be unable to send a message to Nina."
She was a 'great card, as we say, when playing All-fours at Christmas-time; and if one of them could marry her, before she learned of right and wrong, vast property, enough to buy pardons for a thousand Doones, would be at their mercy. And since I was come to know Lorna better, and she to know me thoroughly many things had been outspoken, which her early bashfulness had kept covered from me.
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