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. The Doctor's Christmas Eve is a tale of a country doctor from Kentucky who sits the night before Christmas and recollects his various strange cases over the past year and intensely interconnected relationships between his local patients and neighbors.
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James Lane Allen. The Doctor's Christmas Eve (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
The Doctor's Christmas Eve (Musaicum Christmas Specials)
Table of Contents
Part I
I. The Children of Desire
II. When a Boy Finds Out About His Father
III. The Books of the Year
IV. The Book of the Years
V. Evergreen and Thorn Tree
Part II
I. Two Other Winter Snowbirds at a Window
II. Four in a Cage
III. The Realm of Midnight
IV. Time-Spirit and Eternal Spirit
V. When a Father Finds Out About a Son
VI. Living Out the Years
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James Lane Allen
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They were nearing the end of their bitter walk. The little girl as she hurried forward now and then strained her eyes toward the opposite ends of the house ahead; at the kitchen smoke which promised such gifts to the flesh; at the window-shutters of the darkened parlor where the Christmas Tree stood, soon to be decorated with presents: some for her—the little fat mercenary now approaching who was positive that during these days of preparation she had struck a shrewd bargain with the Immortal.
The boy, too, looked at these windows; but especially he looked at another between them, from which perhaps Elizabeth was watching for him.
