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CHAPTER XXIII
NEW YEAR'S DAY
It is barely seven o'clock. A pale ray of daylight.html">daylight.html">daylight is stealing through
hear in the next room from the stifled laughter.html">laughter and the silvery tones of
toward the bed.html">bed. His curls, escaping from the nightcap covering his head.html">head,
feet, increases his impatience, and causes him to stumble at every step.
At length he crosses the room, and, holding out his two hands to mine:
under the counterpane."
I lift him toward me, but at this moment my wife.html">wife, who is asleep, suddenly
was on fire, and that I heard your voice amid the raging flames. You
smiles and kisses? Baby was waiting for you to wake up, as well as
cold feet in my hands.
"Mamma, it is New Year's Day," he exclaims. With his arms he draws our
his moist lips. I feel his dimpled fists digging into my neck, his
joyous laughter as he throws his head back.
His mother, who has recovered from her fright, takes him in her arms and
daylight."
"Mamma, naughty children don't have any new toys on New Year's Day, do
heaped up in one corner, visible despite the semidarkness.
Soon the curtains are drawn aside, and the shutters opened; daylight
parcels, carefully tied up, are placed on the bed. One is for my wife,
wrappings, and I gleefully follow their impatient fingers entangled among
scissors.
Baby on his side tugs with all his might, biting his lips as he does so,
All the signs of desire and expectation are stamped on his face. His
convulsive movements, and his lips quiver as at the approach of some
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