Now , seeing a young lady home from choice , and being sent home with her by your aunt or mother are two entirely different things , and we thought Sara Ray ought to have sense enough to know it . Outside there was a vivid rose of sunset behind the cold hills of fir , and the long reaches of snowy fields glowed fairily pink in the western light . The drifts along the edges of the meadows and down the lane looked as if a series of breaking waves had , by the lifting of a magician 's wand , been suddenly transformed into marble , even to their toppling curls of foam . Slowly the splendour died , giving place to the mystic beauty of a winter twilight when the moon is rising . The hollow sky was a cup of blue . The stars came out over the white glens and the earth was covered with a kingly carpet for the feet of the young year to press . `` I 'm so glad the snow came , '' said the Story Girl . `` If it had n't the New Year would have seemed just as dingy and worn out as the old . There 's something very solemn about the idea of a New Year , is n't there ? Just think of three hundred and sixty-five whole days , with not a thing happened in them yet . '' `` I do n't suppose anything very wonderful will happen in them , '' said Felix pessimistically . To Felix , just then , life was flat , stale and unprofitable because it was his turn to go home with Sara Ray . `` It makes me a little frightened to think of all that may happen in them , '' said Cecily . `` Miss Marwood says it is what we put into a year , not what we get out of it , that counts at last . '' `` I 'm always glad to see a New Year , '' said the Story Girl . `` I wish we could do as they do in Norway . The whole family sits up until midnight , and then , just as the clock is striking twelve , the father opens the door and welcomes the New Year in . Is n't it a pretty custom ? '' `` If ma would let us stay up till twelve we might do that too , '' said Dan , `` but she never will . I call it mean . ''
`` If I ever have children I 'll XXXXX them stay up to watch the New Year in , '' said the Story Girl decidedly .
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