Captain Jim's small nephew Joe had come down to spend New Year's with his great-uncle, and had fallen asleep on the sofa with the First Mate curled up in a huge golden ball at his feet.
"Welcome, New Year," said Captain Jim, bowing low as the last stroke died away.
"If it hadn't the New Year would have seemed just as dingy and worn out as the old.
"I'm always glad to see a New Year," said the Story Girl.
"The wedding-day was fixed for the first week in the
New Year." ("No, Joseph; not January--the
New Year.") "And God bless you, Richard!
Jerry had not been allowed to go out yet, and I never saw him after that
New Year's eve.
longer than that, if he knew it!--will I marry him on New Year's Day; the best and happiest day, he says, in the whole year, and one that is almost sure to bring good fortune with it.
'And we are going to be married on New Year's Day.'
They got up a masquerade, and had a gay time New Year's Eve.
I had a very happy New Year, after all, and when I thought it over in my room, I felt as if I was getting on a little in spite of my many failures, for I'm cheerful all the time now, work with a will, and take more interest in other people than I used to, which is satisfactory.
Godfrey Cass was looking forward to this
New Year's Eve with a foolish reckless longing, that made him half deaf to his importunate companion, Anxiety.
A fourth letter had come from Prince Andrew, from Rome, in which he wrote that he would have been on his way back to Russia long ago had not his wound unexpectedly reopened in the warm climate, which obliged him to defer his return till the beginning of the
new year. Natasha was still as much in love with her betrothed, found the same comfort in that love, and was still as ready to throw herself into all the pleasures of life as before; but at the end of the fourth month of their separation she began to have fits of depression which she could not master.