Sentence:  Sorrow came to her afterward, disappointment, struggle, but never so heavy and dragging a pain as she knew that Christmas Day. She had been trying in many unsuspected ways to relieve her father's grim misery,--a misery of which his gaunt face told the tale,--and although he had said that he wished for "no <WSD>flubdub</WSD> about Christmas," she really could not resist making some recognition of a day which found all other homes happy. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Trivial matters; nonsense.