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396 valentine's eve if nobwich.
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Another flourishing parcel inscri . p This tion time , ci Presented it is for the to Private volunteer Bull — -a b box y the , and intends ladies on it to of a
Norwich render to , in them grateful and acknowled his country 7 gment . " ie of It the is a services handsomel he y-mounted silver bugleyou may be sure ' says papagravely . Private Bull
suspects a hoax , , and opens the , box somewhat , reluctantly . It contains a penny trumpet . The young people laugh uproariously and
tax each other with the witticism—knock , knock—Oh that poor door ! will it ever recover such shocks to its constitution ? A
longshaped paper addressed to Mrs . Bull . It has an important rustle as she displays the _siDlendid silk dress . " This must be from you !"
and she stands on tip-toe to kiss her portly spouse , who looks solemn and c < only wishes he had sent it , and that times were such
as to allow him to make such presents ! " But his eye twinkles , and the familylike the chorus in a Greek play , all exclaim , " He
, sent it ! he sent it ! " Volunteer Bull now disappears in order to deliver some of the
valentines the Bull family have prepared for their friends- —there goes the knocker again almost immediately . For papa this time .
All crowd round the heavy case excepting Frank , who declines getting off his rocking-horse for anything else in the world . It is
marked , " By Eastern Counties Railway , with care , this side up . " Ah , Mrs . Bull , you seem to me to be rather overacting your curiosity
to examine the contents . It is undone at last ! A beautiful bronze inkstand . ' " How very handsome ! " Papa looks at mamma , who is
absorbed in the cut glasses , and Frank interrupts his see-saw to say , * 'e It was mamma who sent that , I know ; she bought it at
_Min-# ay's that day she ' made me wait outside , and I looked in at the window and saw . "
'/ "Hush , Irush ! you should never tell , " is again drowned in the deafening noise of the knocker . For pretty Alice this time . A
delicate lace collar and some verses which cover her cheeks with Blushesfor the hand is not so much disguised but what Alice can
, _ipiess the author of those . rhymes , Deck—neck ; face—grace ; at your feet—my heart beat ; sweet eyes of thine—thy Valentine .
They want her to read them aloud ; she stammers—bang , bang again . Good knockerto spare the poor girl . And so they laugh
, on with one incessant burst of merriment . Time would fail to tell of all the toys the little ones receive , all
the guesses as to donors . Neither let it be supposed that in the dfawing-room alone mirth is centred . The servants have , at least ,
as many knocks as their master . Old nurse ' s rapture over a photoh brooch—a faint shadow of that rip Frank is a sight to
seegrap and the numerous parcels which come to pretty Susan the housemaid suggest a whole army of lovers besieging tliat fluttering little
heart . But have you felt any interest in the poor widow whose
a Kumble _\ different purchase _, quarter we of noticed the town this — afternoon a street in Follow St _, James ine ' into s ( the quite St .
396 Valentine's Eve If Nobwich.
396 valentine's eve if nobwich .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/36/
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