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Christmas eve was a busy one. Other years the young Cortlandts' tree had been trimmed for them, but this year the fact that the tree was intended to give poor children pleasure seemed to alter every one's attitude toward it.
Beth took it for granted that she and her cousins were to trim the tree themselves, and it so fell out. Beth was given authority over it, as it was to be her party, and, after she got over being afraid to decide any question put to her lest she should decide wrong and spoil the tree, she enjoyed her dignity just as much as she enjoyed the glittering ornaments of many sizes, colors and clever designs which had been ordered in dozens for her tree.