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 1   1|        merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!'' cried a cheerful
 2   1|    will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'' ~The clerk in
 3   1|       first sound of <QUOTE><L>God bless you, merry gentleman! <
 4   2|        not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!'' ~"She died a woman,''
 5   2|  wouldn't have plucked it off, God bless my soul! to save my
 6   3|  Christmas Day. And so it was! God love it, so it was! ~In
 7   3| Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!'' ~Which all the
 8   3|        the family re-echoed. ~"God bless us every one!'' said
 9   3|      this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the
10   4|    thought he'd never die.'' ~"God knows,'' said the first,
11   4|      childish essence was from God! ~"Spectre,'' said Scrooge, "
12   5|      so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One! ~