We decided to have a country
Christmas, without any help from town.
Rachel that a college graduate of the younger generation could make a
Christmas plum pudding properly; but she bestowed approval on Anne's house.
But even watched pots will boil in the fulness of time, and finally
Christmas day came, gray and dour and frost-bitten without, but full of revelry and rose-red mirth within.
"That's a
Christmas present for you, Anne," said Matthew shyly.
But no, their bells were not ringing for him--their
Christmas was not meant for him, they were simply not counting him at all.
On
Christmas eve, accordingly, they began their rude fetes and rejoicings.
`Nephew!' returned the uncle sternly, `keep
Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.'
But now, upo' Christmas-day, this blessed
Christmas as is ever coming, if you was to take your dinner to the bakehus, and go to church, and see the holly and the yew, and hear the anthim, and then take the sacramen', you'd be a deal the better, and you'd know which end you stood on, and you could put your trust i' Them as knows better nor we do, seein' you'd ha' done what it lies on us all to do."
"No, I do like
Christmas on the whole," she announced.
During this first
Christmas vacation I went some distance from the town to visit the people on one of the large plantations.
"Merry
Christmas!" answered the little maid, so heartily that it did one good to hear her.
"Dell," said he, "let's put our
Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while.
Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of
Christmas morning.
Weller,' replied Emma; 'we always have on
Christmas Eve.
In a little while she wrote that she could not bear the separation any longer, she would arrange to come over to London for
Christmas. Philip wrote back that he would like nothing better, only he had already an engagement to spend
Christmas with friends in the country, and he did not see how he could break it.
