Christmas At Thompson Hall (2014)
““Even though you should think so, Mr. Archer, pray do not say so here.”
“But it is.”
“I am very sorry that you should feel like that; but pray do not say anything so very horrible.”
“Why not? and why is it horrible? You know very well what I mean.”
“I do not want to know what you mean; and it would make papa very unhappy if he were to hear you.”
“A great deal of beef is roasted, and a great deal of pudding is boiled, and then people try to be jolly by eating more than usual.... The consequence is, they get very sleepy, and want to go to bed an hour before the proper time. That’s Christmas.”
He who made this speech was a young man about twenty-three years old, and the other personage in the dialogue was a young lady, who might be, perhaps, three years his junior. The “papa” to whom the lady had alluded was the Rev. John Lownd, parson of Kirkby Cliffe, in Craven, and the scene was the parsonage library, as pleasant a little room as you would wish to see, in which the young man who thought Christmas to be a bore was at present sitting over the fire, in the parson’s arm-chair, with a novel in his hand, which he had been reading till he was interrupted by the parson’s daughter.MoreLess
“But it is.”
“I am very sorry that you should feel like that; but pray do not say anything so very horrible.”
“Why not? and why is it horrible? You know very well what I mean.”
“I do not want to know what you mean; and it would make papa very unhappy if he were to hear you.”
“A great deal of beef is roasted, and a great deal of pudding is boiled, and then people try to be jolly by eating more than usual.... The consequence is, they get very sleepy, and want to go to bed an hour before the proper time. That’s Christmas.”
He who made this speech was a young man about twenty-three years old, and the other personage in the dialogue was a young lady, who might be, perhaps, three years his junior. The “papa” to whom the lady had alluded was the Rev. John Lownd, parson of Kirkby Cliffe, in Craven, and the scene was the parsonage library, as pleasant a little room as you would wish to see, in which the young man who thought Christmas to be a bore was at present sitting over the fire, in the parson’s arm-chair, with a novel in his hand, which he had been reading till he was interrupted by the parson’s daughter.MoreLess
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