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1 1| t thaw it one degree at Christmas. ~External heat and cold
2 1| good days in the year, on Christmas Eve -- old Scrooge sat busy
3 1| imagination, he failed. ~"A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!''
4 1| his breath smoked again. ~"Christmas a humbug, uncle!'' said
5 1| said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to
6 1| world of fools as this Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas.
7 1| Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas. What's Christmas time to
8 1| merry Christmas. What's Christmas time to you but a time for
9 1| who goes about with "Merry Christmas'' on his lips, should be
10 1| the uncle, sternly, "keep Christmas in your own way, and let
11 1| returned the nephew: "Christmas among the rest. But I am
12 1| I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round --
13 1| and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation.
14 1| ridiculous than a merry Christmas. "Good afternoon!'' ~"Nay,
15 1| made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas
16 1| Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A
17 1| to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!'' ~"Good afternoon!''
18 1| family, talking about a merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam.'' ~
19 1| don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make
20 1| cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household
21 1| keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first
22 1| in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to
23 1| and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured
24 2| demanded. ~"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.'' ~"Long past?'' inquired
25 2| them give each other Merry Christmas, as they parted at cross-roads
26 2| several homes! What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry
27 2| Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done
28 2| Baba! Yes, yes, I know! One Christmas time, when yonder solitary
29 2| There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night.
30 2| so, "Let us see another Christmas!'' ~Scrooge's former self
31 2| re to be together all the Christmas long, and have the merriest
32 2| shops, that here too it was Christmas time again; but it was evening,
33 2| No more work to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer!
34 2| to-night. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer! Let's have the
35 2| wished him or her a Merry Christmas. When everybody had retired
36 2| shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past. ~"It matters little,''
37 2| attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then
38 3| them. ~"I am the Ghost of Christmas Present,'' said the Spirit. "
39 3| muttered Scrooge. ~The Ghost of Christmas Present rose. ~"Spirit,''
40 3| stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the
41 3| was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers
42 3| general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they
43 3| a shame to quarrel upon Christmas Day. And so it was! God
44 3| name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed
45 3| Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day by half-an-hour!'' ~"
46 3| rampant. "Not coming upon Christmas Day!'' ~Martha didn't like
47 3| to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars
48 3| brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top. ~
49 3| Bob proposed: ~"A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God
50 3| said Bob, "the children; Christmas Day.'' ~"It should be Christmas
51 3| Christmas Day.'' ~"It should be Christmas Day, I am sure,'' said she, "
52 3| was Bob's mild answer, "Christmas Day.'' ~"I'll drink his
53 3| Long life to him. A merry Christmas and a happy new year! He'
54 3| that he had any company but Christmas! ~And now, without a word
55 3| waste, was singing them a Christmas song : it had been a very
56 3| wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and
57 3| man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas
58 3| Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below
59 3| companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes
60 3| ha, ha!'' ~"He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!''
61 3| pity him. He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can'
62 3| reminded by the Ghost of Christmas Past. When this strain of
63 3| never better than at at Christmas, when its mighty Founder
64 3| nephew; and that the Ghost of Christmas Present knew it. The way
65 3| they cried. ~"A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to
66 3| doubts of this, because the Christmas Holidays appeared to be
67 4| presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?'' said Scrooge. ~
68 4| t it?'' ~"Seasonable for Christmas time. You're not a skaiter,
69 4| cheerfully, and hung with Christmas. There was a chair set close
70 4| lying dead?'' ~The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him,
71 4| trembled. ~"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to
72 5| Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this!
73 5| as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New
74 5| corner where the Ghost of Christmas Present, sat! There's the
75 5| boy. "Why, <HI rend="sc">Christmas Day.'' ~"It's Christmas
76 5| Christmas Day.'' ~"It's Christmas Day!'' said Scrooge to himself. "
77 5| Whoop! How are you! Merry Christmas!'' ~It was a Turkey! He
78 5| seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and walking with
79 5| Good morning, sir! A merry Christmas to you!'' And Scrooge said
80 5| very kind of you. A merry Christmas to you, sir!'' ~"Mr Scrooge?'' ~"
81 5| strait-waistcoat. ~"A merry Christmas, Bob!'' said Scrooge, with
82 5| on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than
83 5| this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop,
84 5| that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed
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