... invariable custom, replied Mr. Wardle. Everybody sits down with us on Christmas Eve, as you see them now servants and all and here we wait until the clock strikes twelve, to usher Christmas in and beguile the time with forfeits and old stories. Trundle, my ...

... wishes them a Very Merry Christmas and presents each one with the usual gift of a length of dress material. The upper servants are visited by Lord and Lady Bath and given their gifts and Christmas greetings personally. Christmas luncheon is a really hearty ...

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... By Toby O'Brien THIS issue of The Sketch will appear a few days before Christmas, and I would like therefore to wish a very happy Christmas to all readers, including all those who have written in, happily or angrily, during the past year. I think it would ...

... occur every day in the meaner parts of London. The better kinds of fortune-teller still use a tarot pack (the shabbier the better), but it is perfectly possible to tell fortunes with an ordinary modern pack, mint new from the stationers. Although the particular ...

... After all, it is Christmas, and Christmas comes but once a year mercifully Maybe Sal's French sitter-in would like to come along too good for Mandy 's French. They say that Sal is practically bilingual already ah, well Mandy will need a new frock, of course ...

... sundry to come to Spain. Andy had had romantic notions about Spain ever since his boyhood, when his father had given him one Christmas a big illus trated edition of Don Quixote. He knew nothing whatever about Spain, its people, or its customs; it might have ...