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... sweater than to hear the silence of mudnight at Chrigtmastide broken softly by the chanting of the old-7otld carols ¥ As Mr, Thomas Hardy 6Xpresses i, 1 a mood of tender and wistful teminiscence, thinking of old Christmases at his native ** Mallstock '* » — ...