<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:49:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@novels/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Christmas Tree]]></title><description><![CDATA[She was surprised; but she was a woman of remarkable strength of mind, and she dressed herself and went downstairs, and closeted herself with her brother. “Now, Walter,” she said, “I have been disturbed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/orphan/@novels/literature-charles-dickens-a-christmas-tree</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/orphan/@novels/literature-charles-dickens-a-christmas-tree</guid><category><![CDATA[orphan]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[novels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:52:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Christmas Tree #8/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[In course of time, this compact was forgotten by our friend; the two young men having progressed in life, and taken diverging paths that were wide asunder. 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It is not a hideous visage in itself; it is even meant to be droll, why then were its stolid features so intolerable?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/mask/@novels/literature-charles-dickens-a-christmas-tree-2-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/mask/@novels/literature-charles-dickens-a-christmas-tree-2-9</guid><category><![CDATA[mask]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[novels]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:55:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  A Christmas Tree #1/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Christmas Tree I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. 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