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HICK and fast the presents were coming in that New Year's Eve; for New Year's Day would also be the wedding day of a daughter of our house, and many a choice and costly gift arrived for the bride-elect, among the usual tokens of new year remembrance from relatives and friends for us all, including toys and bon-bons and pretty cards for the little ones. Every ring at the door-bell sent the children of our party to the hall to see whether some fresh gift had arrived. Now it was a packing-case by the Parcels Delivery Company, now a piece of furniture brought by a shop van. Then a servant would leave a parcel and note; next with the postman's knock, would come a registered letter; or, with a sharp ring, a shop messenger with a package and the giver's card attached. There were pretty articles of jewelry, handsome books, household appointments, useful or ornamental, or both combined; and great was our excitement as

LONDON:

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STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS

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