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As he walked into his bedroom, which was pleasantly warm -- for there was a good fire, and the curtains across the three windows were closely drawn -- Dr. Panton told himself that he was indeed beginning the New Year very well.
Half-an-hour ago the whole party, with the exception of Miss Burnaby, who had gone to bed at her usual time, had stood outside the front door under the starry sky while the many clocks of Wyndfell Hall rang out the twelve strokes which said farewell to the Old Year, and brought the New Year in. Then they had all crowded back again into the hall, and, hand in hand, sung "Auld Lang Syne."