Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: Christmas at Thompson Hall Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage The Mistletoe Bough Not if I Know It The Two Generals
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Anthony Trollope. The Mistletoe Bough & Other Christmas Stories
The Mistletoe Bough & Other Christmas Stories
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Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope)
Chapter I. Mrs. Brown’s Success
Chapter II. Mrs. Brown’s Failure
Chapter III. Mrs. Brown Attempts to Escape
Chapter IV. Mrs. Brown Does Escape
Chapter V. Mrs. Brown at Thompson Hall
Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage (Anthony Trollope)
Chapter I. What Maurice Archer Said About Christmas
Chapter II. Kirkby Cliffe Church
Chapter III. Showing How Isabel Lownd Told a Lie
Chapter IV. Showing How Isabel Lownd Repented Her Fault
The Mistletoe Bough (Anthony Trollope)
Not if I Know It (Anthony Trollope)
The Two Generals (Anthony Trollope)
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But she could not see, she could not tell herself, what in such a position a man would do;—at any rate, not what that man would do. Her husband, she thought, would tell his wife, and then the two of them, between them, would—put up with it. There are misfortunes which, if they be published, are simply aggravated by ridicule. But she remembered the features of the stranger as she had seen them at that instant in which she had dropped his beard, and she thought that there was a ferocity in them, a certain tenacity of self-importance, which would not permit their owner to endure such treatment in silence. Would he not storm and rage, and ring the bell, and call all Paris to witness his revenge?
But the storming and the raging had not reached her yet, and now it wanted but a quarter to five. In three-quarters of an hour they would be in that demi-omnibus which they had ordered for themselves, and in half an hour after that they would be flying towards Thompson Hall. Then she allowed herself to think of the coming comforts,—of those comforts so sweet, if only they would come! That very day now present to her was the 24th December, and on that very evening she would be sitting in Christmas joy among all her uncles and cousins, holding her new brother-in-law affectionately by the hand. Oh, what a change from Pandemonium to Paradise;—from that wretched room, from that miserable house in which there was such ample cause for fear, to all the domestic Christmas bliss of the home of the Thompsons! She resolved that she would not, at any rate, be deterred by any light opposition on the part of her husband. “ It wants just a quarter to five,” she said, putting her hand steadily upon his shoulder, “ and I’ll get a cup of chocolate for you, so that you may get up comfortably.”
