New Year

She and Leslie and Gilbert were on their way to the Four Winds Point, having plotted with Captain Jim to watch the New Year in at the light.

On New Year's Eve we were all together in Uncle Alec's kitchen, which was tacitly given over to our revels during the winter evenings.

"Do you really mean to deny, Joseph, that you told Natalie we had decided on the first week in the New Year?"

On the evening of the New Year we had to take two gentlemen to a house in one of the West End Squares.

On the present occasion, the partners endeavored to celebrate the new year with some effect.

No one had the slightest suspicion of what beautiful things she had seen; no one even dreamed of the splendor in which, with her grandmother she had entered on the joys of a new year.

You might as well tell me that two New Year's Days will come together, or that I have had a gold head all my life, and never changed it.'

"Ah, I see it will not do to preach on New Year's Day," said Mr.

Speaking of books reminds me that I'm getting rich in that line, for on New Year's Day Mr.

Only, I will ask you what you mean by a `Happy New Year' under our circumstances?

The thirty-first of December, New Year's Eve, was the date.

In the February of the new year our first child was born--a son.

It was the great dance on New Year's Eve that made the glory of Squire Cass's hospitality, as of his forefathers', time out of mind.

THE WEEK FOLLOWING Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all the world about us was a broth of grey slush, and the guttered slope between the windmill and the barn was running black water.

It reminds me of the journal I opened with the New Year, once, when I was a boy and a confiding and a willing prey to those impossible schemes of reform which well-meaning old maids and grandmothers set for the feet of unwary youths at that season of the year--setting oversized tasks for them, which, necessarily failing, as infallibly weaken the boy's strength of will, diminish his confidence in himself and injure his chances of success in life.