The Doctor's Christmas Eve (Musaicum Christmas Specials)

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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.

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