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"Win? Lose? Or Carombole?”🎱🎄4️⃣

The Eleventh Day - “He seems most averse to innocent enjoyment. As tho’ joy were the stepchild of Evil."

The 10th Day "The addition to Jemima’s wardrobe today was a diminutive Paisley shawl, cut from a real one that my brother Frank had brought as a present from India, years ago. Appropriate for a winter day when Caroline and her doll should be fettered within doors, pacing the floors as women so often must—or hemmed in by sopha cushions, with only books and needlework to hand."

The 9th Day - “Tally-ho, Austens!”

"As the parlour clock began to strike twelve, I opened the kitchen door to let the Old Year out. Then I hurried along the passage to the parsonage hall, and on the stroke of twelve, threw wide the front door to let the New Year in."

The Sixth Day - "I had allowed myself to retreat into the quiet of the countryside and the world of my novels, and had been content."

The Fourth Day - "Win? Lose? Or Carombole?”

“Do not be a spoilsport and a prig, James. Your father was very fond of presenting a sprig of mistletoe to every young lady of his acquaintance on Twelfth Night, as I recall.”

“Do not be a spoilsport and a prig, James. Your father was very fond of presenting a sprig of mistletoe to every young lady of his acquaintance on Twelfth Night, as I recall.”

Boxing Day - "I daresay each of us was so stupefied by food and drink, that we should gladly have sat in silence for an hour or so before toddling to our beds;"