bustling preparations for next day’s cheerand smelled the
numerous savoury odours consequent thereuponas they steamed
up from the kitchen windows in clouds. All this was gall and
wormwood to the heart of Gabriel Grub; and when groups of
children bounded out of the housestripped across the roadand
were metbefore they could knock at the opposite doorby half a
dozen curly-headed little rascals who crowded round them as they
flocked upstairs to spend the evening in their Christmas games
Gabriel smiled grimlyand clutched the handle of his spade with a
firmer graspas he thought of measlesscarlet feverthrush
whooping-coughand a good many other sources of consolation
besides.
‘In this happy frame of mindGabriel strode alongreturning a
shortsullen growl to the good-humoured greetings of such of his
neighbours as now and then passed himuntil he turned into the
dark lane which led to the churchyard. NowGabriel had been
looking forward to reaching the dark lanebecause it was
generally speakinga nicegloomymournful placeinto which the
townspeople did not much care to goexcept in broad daylight
and when the sun was shining; consequentlyhe was not a little
indignant to hear a young ur
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