Strophe
1 1| that he was an excellent man of business on the very
2 1| what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all
3 1| which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination,
4 1| returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business,
5 1| poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth
6 1| called fancy about him as any man in the City of London, even
7 1| afternoon. And then let any man explain to me, if he can,
8 1| its own. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes.
9 1| why do you trouble me?'' ~"Man of the worldly mind!'' replied
10 1| It is required of every man,'' the Ghost returned, "
11 1| But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,'' faultered
12 2| like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural
13 2| still present to the old man's sense of feeling. He was
14 2| his reading. Suddenly a man, in foreign garments: wonderfully
15 2| been, Robin Crusoe?'' The man thought he was dreaming,
16 2| you. And you're to be a man!'' said the child, opening
17 2| self, now grown a young man, came briskly in, accompanied
18 2| of his hands, "before a man can say, Jack Robinson!'' ~
19 2| and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out
20 2| artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his business better
21 2| Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits. His heart
22 2| himself. He was older now; a man in the prime of life. His
23 2| was made, you were another man.'' ~"I was a boy,'' he said
24 2| child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. ~
25 2| came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys
26 3| in. and know me better, man!'' ~Scrooge entered timidly,
27 3| with penitence and grief. ~"Man,'' said the Ghost, "if man
28 3| Man,'' said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant,
29 3| millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear
30 3| stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr Scrooge. You know
31 3| idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself
32 3| where, woe upon the single man who saw them enter -- artful
33 3| glowing fire. An old, old man and woman, with their children
34 3| holiday attire. The old man, in a voice that seldom
35 3| raised their voices, the old man got quite blithe and loud;
36 3| several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas
37 3| belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping,
38 3| unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than
39 3| Happy New Year to the old man, whatever he is!'' said
40 3| every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority
41 3| outside of its garment. ~"Oh, Man! look here. Look, look,
42 3| say no more. ~"They are Man's,'' said the Spirit, looking
43 4| hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared
44 4| No,'' said a great fat man with a monstrous chin, "
45 4| haven't heard,'' said the man with the large chin, yawning
46 4| his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed
47 4| into the presence of this man, just as a woman with a
48 4| was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was
49 4| astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined
50 4| and let the undertaker's man alone to be the third. Look
51 4| screen of rags. The old man raked the fire together
52 4| said the laundress. "No man more so.'' ~"Why then, don'
53 4| said Mrs Dilber and the man together. "We should hope
54 4| things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose.'' ~"No, indeed!''
55 4| not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting
56 4| for the sake of such a man as He was, I promise you,
57 4| light afforded by the old man's lamp, he viewed them with
58 4| The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life
59 4| for, was the body of this man. ~Scrooge glanced towards
60 4| tender; and the pulse a man's. Strike, Shadow, strike!
61 4| bed. He thought, if this man could be raised up now,
62 4| empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child, to
63 4| feels emotion caused by this man's death,'' said Scrooge
64 4| and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn
65 4| a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion
66 4| know not how. Tell me what man that was whom we saw lying
67 4| Here, then, the wretched man whose name he had now to
68 4| Ebenezer Scrooge. ~"Am I that man who lay upon the bed?''
69 4| hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the
70 4| I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for
71 5| am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body!
72 5| ha ha!'' ~Really, for a man who had been out of practice
73 5| take it. Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling.
74 5| coming of the poulterer's man. As he stood there, waiting
75 5| a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew,
76 5| keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.
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