Strophe
1 1| door-nail. ~Mind! I don't mean to say that I know,
2 1| were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge
3 1| in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. ~
4 1| entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him.
5 1| one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge
6 1| Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure.'' ~"
7 1| up with "Humbug.'' ~"Don't be cross, uncle,'' said
8 1| Scrooge's nephew. "But you don't keep it.'' ~"Let me leave
9 1| nephew. "I wonder you don't go into Parliament.'' ~"
10 1| into Parliament.'' ~"Don't be angry, uncle. Come! Dine
11 1| that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas
12 1| myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people
13 1| must go there.'' ~"Many can't go there; and many would
14 1| Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.'' ~"But you might
15 1| said Scrooge, "you don't think me ill-used, when
16 1| out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too
17 1| said Scrooge. "I won't believe it.'' ~His colour
18 1| question, because he didn't know whether a ghost so
19 1| quite used to it. ~"You don't believe in me,'' observed
20 1| observed the Ghost. ~"I don't,'' said Scrooge. ~"What
21 1| of your senses?'' ~"I don't know,'' said Scrooge. ~"
22 1| said Scrooge. "But don't be hard upon me! Don't be
23 1| don't be hard upon me! Don't be flowery, Jacob! Pray!'' ~"
24 1| bell tolls One.'' ~"Couldn't I take 'em all at once,
25 2| and stopped. ~"Why, it isn't possible,'' said Scrooge, "
26 2| into another night. It isn't possible that anything has
27 2| the Gate of Damascus; don't you see him! And the Sultan'
28 2| was dreaming, but he wasn't. It was the Parrot, you
29 2| Robinson!'' ~You wouldn't believe how those two fellows
30 2| was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or couldn'
31 2| cleared away, or couldn't have cleared away, with
32 2| dance like moons. You couldn't have predicted, at any given
33 2| this praise?'' ~"It isn't that,'' said Scrooge, heated
34 2| his latter, self. "It isn't that, Spirit. He has the
35 2| Scrooge. "No more. I don't wish to see it. Show me
36 2| so rude, no, no! I wouldn't for the wealth of all the
37 2| precious little shoe, I wouldn't have plucked it off, God
38 2| bold young brood, I couldn't have done it; I should have
39 2| How can I? Tut, don't I know.'' she added in the
40 3| as hardily as this, I don't mind calling on you to believe
41 3| pursued the Phantom. ~"I don't think I have,'' said Scrooge. "
42 3| said Scrooge. "Wouldn't you?'' ~"I!'' cried the
43 3| Tiny Tim! And Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day
44 3| Christmas Day!'' ~Martha didn't like to see him disappointed,
45 3| goose. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such
46 3| upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last! Yet
47 3| last of all, but he didn't care twopence for it. Scrooge
48 3| so high that you couldn't have seen his head if you
49 3| of no use to him. He don't do any good with it. He
50 3| any good with it. He don't make himself comfortable
51 3| comfortable with it. He hasn't the satisfaction of thinking --
52 3| sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried.
53 3| to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us. What'
54 3| the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner.'' ~"
55 3| nephew, "because I haven't great faith in these young
56 3| till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of
57 3| Jacob Marley. ~But they didn't devote the whole evening
58 3| plump sister was. He wouldn't catch anybody else. If you
59 3| often cried out that it wasn't fair; and it really was
60 3| about the streets, and wasn't made a show of, and wasn'
61 3| made a show of, and wasn't led by anybody, and didn'
62 3| led by anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and
63 3| Scrooge's nephew. "He wouldn't take it from me, but may
64 4| a monstrous chin, "I don't know much about it, either
65 4| a turkey-cock. ~"I haven't heard,'' said the man with
66 4| Company, perhaps. He hasn't left it to me. That's all
67 4| for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to
68 4| and volunteer?'' ~"I don't mind going if a lunch is
69 4| at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend;
70 4| returned the second. "Cold, isn't it?'' ~"Seasonable for Christmas
71 4| s a chance! If we haven't all three met here without
72 4| meaning it!'' ~"You couldn't have met in a better place,''
73 4| know; and the other two an't strangers. Stop till I shut
74 4| How it skreeks! There an't such a rusty bit of metal
75 4| more so.'' ~"Why then, don't stand staring as if you
76 4| pursued the woman, "why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?
77 4| said Joe, "and I wouldn't give another sixpence, if
78 4| Bed-curtains!'' ~"You don't mean to say you took them
79 4| it.'' ~"I certainly shan't hold my hand, when I can
80 4| returned the woman coolly. "don't drop that oil upon the blankets,
81 4| replied the woman. "He isn't likely to take cold without '
82 4| say.'' ~"I hope he didn't die of any thing catching?
83 4| work, and looking up. ~"Don't you be afraid of that,''
84 4| returned the woman. "I an't so fond of his company that
85 4| your eyes ache; but you won't find a hole in it, nor a
86 4| have wasted it, if it hadn't been for me.'' ~"What do
87 4| off again. If calico an't good enough for such a purpose,
88 4| for such a purpose, it isn't good enough for anything.
89 4| becoming to the body. He can't look uglier than he did
90 4| be transferred?'' ~"I don't know. But before that time
91 4| candle-light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father
92 4| as if they said, "Don't mind it, father. Don't be
93 4| Don't mind it, father. Don't be grieved!'' ~Bob was very
94 4| down all at once. He couldn't help it. If he could have
95 4| he ever knew that, I don't know.'' ~"Knew what, my
96 4| come to me.'' Now, it wasn't,'' cried Bob, "for the sake
97 4| spoke to him. I shouldn't be at all surprised, mark
98 5| of extravagance. ~"I don't know what to do!'' cried
99 5| briliant laughs! ~"I don't know what day of the month
100 5| said Scrooge. "I don't know how long I've been
101 5| among the Spirits. I don't know anything. I'm quite
102 5| baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby.
103 5| Scrooge to himself. "I haven 't missed it. The Spirits have
104 5| with a laugh. "He sha'n't know who sends it. It's
105 5| attention, even when you don't dance while you are at it.
106 5| 160"> with him. "I don't know what to say to such
107 5| such munifi‐'' ~"don't say anything, please,''
108 5| footstool, or he wouldn't have done it, on any account. ~"
109 5| in! It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off. He was
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