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SPETTIGUE, J. H. 238
VAIZEY, MRS. G. DE HORNE 9
WILLIAMS, HENRY 221
[Sidenote: A happy thought, a cross-country journey, a strange
discovery, another happy thought, and many still happier thoughts
hereafter!]
The Christmas Child
BY
MRS. G. DE HORNE VAIZEY
Jack said: "Nonsense! We are all grown up now. Let Christmas alone. Take
no notice of it; treat it as if it were an ordinary day."
Margaret said: "The servants have all begged for leave. Most of their
mothers are dying, and if they are not, it's a sister who is going to be
married. Really, it's a servants' ball which the Squire is giving in the
village hall. Mean, I call it, to decoy one's maids just when one needs
them most!"
Tom said: "Beastly jolly dull show anyhow, to spend the day alone with
your brothers and sisters. Better chuck it at once!"
Peg said firmly and with emphasis: "_Heathen!_ Miserable, cold-blooded,
materially-minded _frogs_! Where's your Christmas spirit, I should like
to know? . . . If you have none for yourselves, think of other people.
Think of _me_! I love my Christmas, and I'm not going to give it up for
you or any one else. My very first Christmas at home as a growed-up
lady, and you want to diddle me out of it. . . . Go to! Likewise, avaunt!
Now by my halidom, good sirs, you know not with whom you have to deal.
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