Old Christmas From the Sketch book of Washington Irving
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Close adjoining was the porter's lodge, sheltered underdark fir-trees, and almost buried in shrubbery. [Illustration] The post-boy rang a large porter's bell, which resounded through thestill frosty air, and was answered by the distant barking of dogs, withwhich the mansion-house seemed garrisoned. An old woman immediatelyappeared at the gate. As the moonlight fell strongly upon her, I had afull view of a little primitive dame, dressed very much in the antiquetaste, with a neat kerchief and sto...macher, and her silver hair peepingfrom under a cap of snowy whiteness. She came curtseying forth, withmany expressions of simple joy at seeing her young master. Her husband, it seems, was up at the house keeping Christmas eve in the servants'hall; they could not do without him, as he was the best hand at a songand story in the household. [Illustration: "It was in a heavy magnificent old style, of iron bars, fancifully wrought at top into flourishes and flowers. "--PAGE 46. ] My friend proposed that we should alight and walk through the park tothe hall, which was at no great distance, while the chaise should followon.
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