The Christmas Banquet (From "mosses From An Old Manse")
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cold!" The banquet drew to its conclusion, and the guests departed. Scarcely had they stepped across the threshold of the hall, when thescene that had there passed seemed like the vision of a sick fancy, or an exhalation from a stagnant heart. Now and then, however, during the year that ensued, these melancholy people caught glimpsesof one another, transient, indeed, but enough to prove that theywalked the earth with the ordinary allotment of reality. Sometimesa pair of them came face to face, ...while stealing through the eveningtwilight, enveloped in their sable cloaks. Sometimes they casuallymet in churchyards. Once, also, it happened that two of the dismalbanqueters mutually started at recognizing each other in the noondaysunshine of a crowded street, stalking there like ghosts astray. Doubtless they wondered why the skeleton did not come abroad atnoonday too. But whenever the necessity of their affairs compelled theseChristmas guests into the bustling world, they were sure toencounter the young man who had so unaccountably been admitted tothe festival.
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