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Chapter Seven.
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Twelve months passed away, and Christmas came again, with its frost and snow and sunshine—its blazing fires, its good cheer, and its merry greetings.
Many a Christmastide had now passed over the head of our blacksmith, John Thorogood, and his excellent wife Mary, but Time had touched them lightly in its flight. They both looked young and hale, and full of vigour1. The only difference in them was a wrinkle or two at the corners of the eyes, and a few grey hairs mingling2 with the brown. Perhaps John was a little more corpulent than when he was a youth; but he could wield3 the fore-hammer as easily and powerfully as ever.
A cloud, however, had been gathering4 over their happy home during the past year. Molly—the sweet active girl who had never known a day’s illness from her childhood—had fallen into bad health. Her step had lost its spring, but her cheerful spirit was unsubdued.
“You’re better to-day, Molly darling?” asked the smith, in a tone which showed he was not sure of the answer.
“Yes, father, much better.” Molly did not use endearing terms, but the sweetness of her looks and voice rendered such needless.
She was pale and thin, and could not check the touch of sadness in her tones.
“Fred is sure to come, darling,” said Mrs Thorogood, stopping in her preparations for supper to smooth her daughter’s fair head.
“Oh yes, mother, I know that Fred is sure to come,” returned Molly, with a laugh and a little blush. “No fear of him. I was not thinking of him, but of Jim. It is the first Christmas we shall have spent without him. Dear Jim! I wonder what company he will have to spend it with him in the backwoods.”
“Whatever company it may be,” returned the mother, “they’ll only have his body and mind—his spirit will be here.”
“Well said, old Moll; we shall have the best part of him to-night in spite of the Atlantic Ocean,” cried the blacksmith, who was seated on a stool making fun with the terrier, the cat, and the kitten—not the original animals, of course, but the lineal descendants of those which were introduced at the beginning of our tale.
“I hope they won’t be late,” remarked Mrs Thorogood, looking with some anxiety into a big pot which rested on the roaring fire.
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