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The Golden Road by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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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,
isn't there? Just think of three hundred and sixty-five whole
days, with not a thing happened in them yet."

"I don'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. Isn'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 let them stay up to watch the New
Year in," said the Story Girl decidedly.

"So will I," said Peter, "but other nights they'll have to go to
bed at seven."

"You ought to be ashamed, speaking of such things," said Felicity,
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