Playing House by Mary Balogh

Author:Mary Balogh [Balogh, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Regency, Man-woman relationships, Christmas stories, General, Romance, Christmas stories; English, Short Stories (single author), Historical, Fiction, Love stories
ISBN: 9780451223456
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published: 2007-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

And there he was, Bedford discovered half an hour later, his coat discarded, his shirtsleeves rolled up, his neckcloth askew, balanced on a kitchen chair and pounding a nail into the ceiling. For the great star, it seemed, had not been brought for the Christmas tree at all—"How silly, Papa," Dora had said with a giggle. "It would be too big"—but to hang over the Nativity scene.

"Just look at the darling baby Jesus," Dora was saying in a voice of wonder while everyone else was gazing upward at the star Bedford was suspending from the nail.

And then they were all standing in the room, gazing about them at all the splendor and wonder of Christmas, just as if it had come already: the holly boughs and the tree hung with bells and crystal balls, all catching the light from the outdoors and from the fire and the rudely carved Nativity scene with its bright and outsize star and its minute baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.

"Lilias is standing beneath the mistletoe," Megan said suddenly and in great delight.

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