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“Christmas eve in the quaint little town of Cliffside; and a good old-fashioned Christmas too. Not one of those miserable remnants of November which are, alas, too common in modern experience of an English Christmas, but a downright hard season, such as our grandfathers love to talk about when they laud the superiority of the ‘good old days’.”