title: The Girl Who Didn't Believe In Mistletoe
author:  Mary Leask 
description: Lucy Allen was brought up to believe that hard work, not sentiment, made for success and happiness. But when, unexpectedly, Lucy finds herself out of her teaching job and without funds, desperation causes her to try an old scam to get a meal in one of Toronto's best restaurants. While there, she meets the man who could change her life forever. Ross Urquhart is rich, powerful, and thoroughly charming. He is also in a lot of trouble. While helping Ross deal with the far-reaching consequences of their fateful encounter, Lucy faces mortal danger, tests her courage, and discovers unexpected romance. She also learns at last of the joy of Christmas and the magic of mistletoe.
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  The Mistletoe Bough  
    
  
  
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  # The Mistletoe Bough
  
  
  ### Anthony Trollope
  
  
  
  
  
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  "Let the boys have it if they like it," said Mrs. Garrow, pleading
  
  
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  "Pray don't, mamma," said Elizabeth Garrow. "It only means romping.
  
  
  To me all that is detestable, and I am sure it is not the sort of
  
  
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  "We always had it at Christmas when we were young."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "But, mamma, the world is so changed."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The point in dispute was one very delicate in its nature, hardly to
  
  
  be discussed in all its bearings, even in fiction, and the very
  
  
  mention of which between mother and daughter showed a great amount
  
  
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