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SELWICK HALL , DECEMBER THE XXVIII . `` Well , _ Edith _ , '' quoth Aunt _ Joyce _ to me last night , `` thou hast had a rare time of it ! '' `` I have , _ Aunt _ , '' said I : `` yet I warrant you , I was not sorry to have _ Sunday _ come at after . '' Eh , but I was weary when I gat me abed on _ Christmas _ night , and it were ten o'clock well told ere I so did . _ Helen _ and _ Milisent _ were later yet : but _ Mother _ packed me off , saying that growing maids should not tarry up late : and when I found me withinside the blankets , I warrant you , but I was thankful ! I reckon , being now something rested , I must set down all that we did : and first for _ Christmas _ Eve . _ Hal _ and _ Anstace _ came early -LRB- their childre were bidden to _ Keswick _ unto a childre 's gathering -RRB- : then about three o ' the clock , Master and Mistress _ Lewthwaite _ , with _ Alice , Nym , Jack _ , and _ Robin _ -LRB- and by the same token , _ Nym _ played the despairing gallant that I could not choose but laugh , his hat awry and his ruff all o ' one side , and a bombasted -LSB- padded -RSB- doublet that made him look twice his own size -RRB- .