115-coupl | coura-grade | grape-other | outca-sleev | slept-zeal
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1 3| of the alphabet. <PB n="115">Likewise at the game of
2 1| said one of the <PB n="12">gentlemen, referring to
3 4| down, and chinked<PB n="124"> the money in their pockets,
4 4| against his face,<PB n="144"> as if they said, "Don'
5 4| boy.'' cried Bob. "I<PB n="146"> hope they do. "Heartily
6 5| other, shaking hands<PB n="160"> with him. "I don't know
7 5| with Spirits, but <PB n="166">lived upon the Total Abstinence
8 1| earlier next morning!'' <PB n="18">~The clerk promised that
9 Pre| Servant, C.D. ~December, 1843. ~ ~
10 2| Chapter 2 - The First of the Three
11 3| Chapter 3 - The Second of the Three
12 1| said Scrooge. <PB n="35">~"Without their visits,''
13 4| Chapter 4 - The Last of the Spirits~
14 2| inquired the Spirit. <PB n="48">~"Remember it!'' cried
15 5| Chapter 5 - The End of it~ Yes!
16 2| for evermore; the<PB n="59"> floor was swept and watered,
17 2| bow and curtsey;<PB n="62"> corkscrew; thread-the-needle,
18 2| changed towards you.'' <PB n="66">~She shook her head. ~"
19 3| ivy, turkeys, geese,<PB n="80"> game, poultry, brawn,
20 3| came little Bob, the<PB n="90"> father, with at least
21 3| do, poor fellow!'' <PB n="98">~"My dear,'' was Bob's
22 3| and how she meant to lie a-bed to-morrow morning for a
23 3| fifteen <SOCALLED>bobSOCALLED> a-week himself; he pocketed on
24 1| Scriptures. There were Cains and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters, Queens
25 3| two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable.
26 1| led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes
27 1| clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting
28 5| 166">lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards;
29 1| Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put
30 3| darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets
31 3| gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with
32 4| to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced
33 4| that shirt till your eyes ache; but you won't find a hole
34 3| as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit since their
35 3| and I'll cultivate his acquaintance. ~It is a fair, even-handed,
36 3| plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and
37 2| of this time, Scrooge had acted like a man out of his wits.
38 3| strong and hearty. ~His active little crutch was heard
39 3| man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant
40 2| weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes;
41 2| that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then?
42 5| hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one, but
43 1| Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Scrooge, or Mr Marley?'' ~"
44 3| ghostly light might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further
45 3| fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there
46 2| curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties
47 1| sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole
48 3| Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes,
49 1| from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant
50 2| gone all through the dance; advance and retire, hold hands with
51 1| sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
52 3| range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are
53 2| undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its
54 3| same nephew with approving affability! ~"Ha, ha!'' laughed Scrooge'
55 5| and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over
56 2| his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and
57 2| round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple
58 1| Scrooge, "a little thing affects them. A slight disorder
59 1| at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
60 4| spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man's lamp, he
61 3| which would have been an affront to your understanding, and
62 1| phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal
63 2| high desk, with wonderful agility. "Clear away, my lads, and
64 2| underwent the strangest agitation. It was not until now, when
65 4| death,'' said Scrooge quite agonised, "show that person to me,
66 4| on this stone!'' ~In his agony, he caught the spectral
67 1| a day.'' ~It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shivered,
68 2| of finding this a false alarm! The joy, and gratitude,
69 3| Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a
70 1| word -- the corporation, aldermen, and livery. Let it also
71 2| They are all indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees
72 4| drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many
73 3| plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the
74 3| poverty, and it was rich. In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in
75 3| with all the letters of the alphabet. <PB n="115">Likewise at
76 4| dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with
77 3| little creature's head. Altogether she was what you would have
78 4| he relents,'' she said, amazed, "there is. Nothing is past
79 | amongst
80 3| observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were
81 1| trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my
82 5| feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy.
83 1| daughters, Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending through
84 3| them into shreds. Where angels might have sat enthroned,
85 4| which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language. ~
86 2| was received! The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken
87 1| replied. ~"You wish to be anonymous?'' ~"I wish to be left alone,''
88 3| must find out what; he only answering to their questions yes or
89 3| round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was
90 2| shaking of his head, glanced anxiously towards the door. ~It opened;
91 | anyhow
92 5| as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as
93 | anywhere
94 3| into the street in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy,
95 1| Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea in butter-boats,
96 3| Scrooge started back, appalled. Having them shown to him
97 1| chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held
98 4| towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver
99 4| importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling
100 3| And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This
101 1| Pray!'' ~"How it is that I appear before you in a shape that
102 3| good broad field of strange appearances, and that nothing between
103 1| in the tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible
104 4| that to whomsoever they applied they had some latent moral
105 4| were severally examined and appraised by old Joe, who chalked
106 3| be at; and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that
107 3| Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told
108 2| said Scrooge. "Was I apprenticed here!'' ~They went in. At
109 2| him to listen to the two apprentices, who were pouring out their
110 1| substituted this, as more appropriate. ~"In life I was your partner,
111 3| at that same nephew with approving affability! ~"Ha, ha!''
112 3| which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their
113 4| slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools,
114 3| tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was
115 3| forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and
116 5| was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers
117 5| stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker caught his
118 1| shutting up the counting-house arrived. With an ill-will Scrooge
119 3| warded or concealed by any artifice. Its feet, observable beneath
120 3| below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms. ~The
121 4| delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled
122 2| I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until
123 3| the window-blind of guests assembling; and there a group of handsome
124 1| administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee,
125 1| charge, for the reason just assigned; and wishing, though it
126 3| and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second
127 2| bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow with too
128 4| so trivial; but feeling assured that they must have some
129 1| instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak mind. ~Scrooge
130 3| and rhinoceros would have astonished him very much. ~Now, being
131 3| upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last! Yet every
132 3| delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish),
133 3| descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys
134 4| surprised that the Spirit should attach importance to conversations
135 2| the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas
136 2| now Scrooge looked on more attentively than ever, when the master
137 3| out gaily in their holiday attire. The old man, in a voice
138 3| find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his
139 1| hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that
140 5| have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed:
141 3| now. To-night, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit
142 3| brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first to greet
143 3| man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door
144 4| thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns out to have been
145 2| one. He resolved to lie awake until the hour was past;
146 3| I~Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously
147 2| boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling;
148 2| outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and leading
149 3| for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast,
150 5| farthing less. A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure
151 2| were under a counter in the back-shop. ~During the whole of this
152 3| got over the wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they
153 2| them with boys upon their backs, who called to other boys
154 1| The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step
155 1| enough: and those who are badly off must go there.'' ~"Many
156 4| Joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it, told out
157 3| be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner.
158 3| the bells ceased, and the bakers' were shut up; and yet there
159 3| dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before
160 1| hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every
161 3| mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with. Bob Cratchit
162 2| struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs Fezziwig
163 2| warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room, as you would desire to
164 1| and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. There
165 1| and closed it with a bang. ~The sound resounded through
166 1| of the evening with his banker's-book, went home to bed.
167 3| the Ghost exulted! How it bared its breadth of breast, and
168 2| his hand relaxed; and had barely time to reel to bed, before
169 2| savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which associated
170 2| bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain
171 3| mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chesnuts,
172 3| howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them
173 3| of sea-weed clung to its base, and storm-birds -- born
174 1| in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan
175 3| known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of
176 3| could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never
177 2| shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and all the
178 3| off the covers as their bearers passed, sprinkled incense
179 4| be supposed to have any bearing on the death of Jacob, his
180 2| would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken
181 1| go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts,
182 1| it, it was wide open. ~It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which
183 1| do that. ~Sitting-room, bed-room, lumber-room. All as they
184 3| half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck
185 1| Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam.'' ~This lunatic, in letting
186 2| further, of being in his own bedroom. He gave the cap a parting
187 2| mince-pies, and plenty of beer. But the great effect of
188 4| there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a pent-house
189 | beforehand
190 | beginning
191 3| He never finishes what he begins to say. He is such a ridiculous
192 1| all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening
193 3| And how did little Tim behave?'' asked Mrs Cratchit, when
194 3| friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily. ~"Ha,
195 3| I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about
196 2| consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care;
197 2| grew very dim indeed. ~"Belle,'' said the husband, turning
198 1| chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner.
199 1| feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to
200 2| clapping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh. "To bring
201 3| that he is ever going to benefit Us with it.'' ~"I have no
202 4| and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared
203 4| person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!'' ~
204 3| urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper
205 | Besides
206 4| just now desired, until besought by Scrooge to tarry for
207 2| old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where
208 1| mind that Scrooge had not bestowed one thought on Marley, since
209 3| a facetious snowball -- better-natured missile far than many a
210 3| into the receipt of that bewildering income. Martha, who was
211 3| and make it worse! And bide the end!'' <ILLUS>~"Have
212 3| leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting
213 3| ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our
214 3| feel faint and subsequently bilious. Nor was it that the figs
215 1| you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for
216 5| stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped '
217 3| goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon,
218 5| Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob!<ILLUS> Make up the
219 1| indeed; nothing on such a bitter night. He was obliged to
220 1| him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow
221 3| enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth
222 2| are what they are, do not blame me!'' ~"Remove me!'' Scrooge
223 3| tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee
224 3| Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his
225 3| fires half-chimney high. Blessings on it, how the Ghost exulted!
226 3| chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge'
227 2| fervour; "I could walk it blindfold.'' ~"Strange to have forgotten
228 1| he could pelt, to play at blindman's buff. ~Scrooge took his
229 1| place, of Scrooge. Even the blindmen's dogs appeared to know
230 5| ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears. ~He had not
231 2| curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake,
232 1| Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred
233 2| in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The arms
234 3| apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches
235 1| undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese,
236 3| their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker'
237 1| eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly
238 3| not sharper than Scrooge; blunt as he took it in his head
239 2| eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves
240 4| the dinner that had been boarding for him by the fire; and
241 3| fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school, as he had been reminded
242 1| and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him
243 1| below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down
244 2| centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet
245 2| nother; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly,
246 1| with his own hands, and the bolts were undisturbed. He tried
247 3| surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn'
248 3| taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal. ~"
249 2| having wilfully <SOCALLED>bonnetedSOCALLED> the Spirit at any
250 1| cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard
251 3| simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur. This garment
252 5| good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
253 2| he thought Marley's Ghost bothered him exceedingly. Every time
254 3| merriment, and passed the bottle joyously. ~After tea, they
255 4| roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal,
256 2| couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them. When this
257 2| sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar,
258 4| and greasy offal, were bought. Upon the floor within,
259 2| was he rejoiced beyond all bounds to see them! Why did his
260 1| papers in their hands, and bowed to him. ~"Scrooge and Marley'
261 3| twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the
262 2| Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there! '' and in the hall
263 3| from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was
264 2| world have crushed that braided hair, and torn it down;
265 2| a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him
266 2| was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in
267 3| where the great streets branched off; and made intricate
268 3| half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas
269 1| lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of
270 4| faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.
271 3| exulted! How it bared its breadth of breast, and opened its
272 3| enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose
273 1| beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet
274 1| to put his hands in his breeches pockets. Pondering on what
275 1| turning out after dark in a breezy spot -- say Saint Paul's
276 1| Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. ~The door
277 2| approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted
278 4| charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal,
279 2| in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding
280 2| ass laden with wood by the bridle. ~"Why, it's Ali Baba! ''
281 2| in his mind; and answered briefly, "Yes.'' ~Although they
282 2| got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly. What would
283 4| little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier house
284 3| clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavoured
285 5| of a long, long line of briliant laughs! ~"I don't know what
286 2| Yes!'' said the child, brimful of glee. "Home, for good
287 1| mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started
288 1| the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his
289 3| all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught
290 3| were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining
291 1| staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards
292 4| of sleeve-buttons, and a brooch of no great value, were
293 3| opulence. There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions,
294 2| pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by
295 3| threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and
296 3| until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the
297 5| to talk to him. Yes, my buck!'' ~"It's hanging there
298 3| or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or
299 3| tumbling over the chairs, bumping against the piano, smothering
300 3| blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the
301 2| make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say
302 1| that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman,
303 3| about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread
304 2| observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly
305 2| the light upon its head burnt very clear. ~"A small matter,''
306 4| choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite.
307 1| Scrooge observed, in a business-like manner, though with humility
308 3| high procession. ~Such a bustle ensued that you might have
309 1| orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord
310 1| Apostles putting off to sea in butter-boats, hundreds of figures to
311 1| Scrooge went, not caring a button for that: darkness is cheap,
312 1| December!'' said Scrooge, buttoning his great-coat to the chin. "
313 1| waistcoat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind. ~Scrooge
314 3| there emerged from scores of bye-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings,
315 2| parted at cross-roads and bye-ways, for their several homes!
316 3| to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward
317 Pre| faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. ~December, 1843. ~ ~
318 1| or sixty fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing. ~"
319 1| the Scriptures. There were Cains and Abels, Pharaoh's daughters,
320 3| delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten
321 1| time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and
322 4| I took it off again. If calico an't good enough for such
323 4| pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement. ~Scrooge and
324 3| Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it
325 2| to issue from Fezziwig's calves. They shone in every part
326 3| spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted
327 1| been light all day: and candles were flaring in the windows
328 3| so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down
329 3| pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing
330 4| and honoured head, thou canst not turn one hair to thy
331 3| adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered
332 3| poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby --
333 3| the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing
334 3| dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth,
335 1| it for a nuisance. ~"Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed,''
336 4| he said, giving me his card, "that's where I live. Pray
337 3| had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had
338 3| crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows
339 4| the head. The cover was so carelessly adjusted that the slightest
340 4| husband; a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he
341 1| services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their
342 3| turnings, innumerable people, carrying their dinners to the baker'
343 3| looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in
344 1| observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers,
345 1| Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars
346 1| dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchant's cellar.
347 1| How now!'' said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever. "What
348 1| the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he
349 3| raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely
350 2| could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were
351 2| maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in
352 1| who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank,
353 1| as dragging chains. ~The cellar-door flew open with a booming
354 1| cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have
355 4| and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences
356 3| shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year
357 2| tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster
358 4| appraised by old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed
359 3| the bed. For he wished to challenge the Spirit on the moment
360 3| off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick
361 3| people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking
362 2| very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his
363 4| wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks,
364 2| fellows went at it! They charged into the street with the
365 1| time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only
366 1| welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and
367 4| into a laugh. ~"Let the charwoman alone to be the first!''
368 3| tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal
369 1| of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested
370 5| Whoop! Hallo here!'' ~He was checked in his transports by the
371 4| above, which was lighted cheerfully, and hung with Christmas.
372 3| yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest
373 3| eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained
374 1| blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone
375 3| oysters, red-hot chesnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious
376 1| the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed
377 1| warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was
378 1| him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold
379 2| earthy savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the place, which
380 2| in this state until the chime had gone three quarters
381 3| blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that dull petrification
382 3| the Ghost, "in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an
383 3| sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by
384 1| came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so
385 4| hurried up and down, and chinked<PB n="124"> the money in
386 2| room here! Hilli-ho, Dick! Chirrup, Ebenezer!'' ~Clear away!
387 3| fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though
388 2| everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you
389 3| time they all joined in the chorus. So surely as they raised
390 2| happy in the life you have chosen!'' ~She left him, and they
391 5| in his chair again, and chuckled till he cried. ~Shaving
392 5| in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest
393 3| extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the
394 3| what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and
395 2| below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers,
396 3| returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their
397 1| set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in
398 1| They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below;
399 2| old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands, "before a
400 2| Heaven!'' said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he
401 3| cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest
402 1| burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker,
403 2| store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon
404 3| nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was
405 3| down upon them. "And they cling to me, appealing from their
406 1| stones to warm them. The city clocks had only just gone three,
407 3| reverently did so. It was clothed in one simple green robe,
408 1| phantoms. To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring
409 2| their gates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables;
410 4| self would give him the clue he missed, and would render
411 2| should; and sent me in a coach to bring you. And you're
412 1| vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of
413 2| in the stables; and the coach-houses and sheds were over-run
414 2| where shadowy carts and coaches battle for the way, and
415 1| that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish
416 1| it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so
417 5| the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i,
418 3| but moss and furze, and coarse, rank grass. Down in the
419 1| see the two buttons on his coat behind. ~Scrooge had often
420 1| like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head.
421 4| pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose?'' ~"No, indeed!''
422 3| blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the
423 1| inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of
424 1| and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was
425 1| beef. ~Foggier yet, and colder! Piercing, searching, biting
426 3| molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and
427 4| hood and dress. It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into
428 3| corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob's private property,
429 3| interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the consolation
430 2| until he saw her, now a comely matron, sitting opposite
431 1| thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.'' ~"Are there no prisons?''
432 3| perfectly satisfactory! ~"He's a comical old fellow,'' said Scrooge'
433 4| terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!
434 3| back to fetch them, and committed hundreds of the like mistakes,
435 1| that hung in the room, and communicated for some purpose now forgotten
436 3| lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons,
437 3| below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas
438 3| sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his
439 3| be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had
440 4| had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little
441 3| and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted,
442 3| being made more shabby -- compounded some hot mixture in a jug
443 3| went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which
444 2| nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the
445 1| not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It
446 3| Holidays appeared to be condensed into the space of time they
447 2| Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful
448 2| rest would have been more conducive to that end. The Spirit
449 3| especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger
450 3| Bob's private property, conferred upon his son and heir in
451 2| you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything
452 3| office, they were so very confidential together, behind the curtains. ~
453 5| sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his
454 1| his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude,
455 1| hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent
456 1| its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic
457 1| to the fog and even more congenial frost. ~At length the hour
458 2| high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence
459 2| conducting itself like forty. The consequences were uproarious beyond belief;
460 3| prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when the Bell struck One,
461 4| purpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be.
462 3| the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges
463 2| the hour was past; and, considering that he could no more go
464 3| combustion, without having the consolation of knowing it. At last,
465 3| benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths
466 1| people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!'' ~
467 3| the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
468 3| pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when
469 3| into the most extravagant contortions: Scrooge's niece, by marriage,
470 2| her head. ~"Am I?'' ~"Our contract is an old one. It was made
471 4| portion of the garment was contracted for an instant in its folds,
472 2| its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had
473 2| one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter
474 3| and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet
475 1| the face and beyond its control, rather than a part of its
476 4| his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having
477 4| should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but
478 4| money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at
479 2| the baker. In came the cook, with her brother's particular
480 3| there ever was such a goose cooked. Its tenderness and flavour,
481 1| gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas
482 4| Joe,'' returned the woman coolly. "don't drop that oil upon
483 3| on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and
484 1| there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on
485 1| beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very
486 1| Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. ~"There's another fellow,''
487 3| lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze of
488 2| and curtsey;<PB n="62"> corkscrew; thread-the-needle, and
489 3| potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (
490 1| great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of
491 1| which is a bold word -- the corporation, aldermen, and livery. Let
492 4| obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself. ~"Ha, ha!'' laughed
493 2| with his former self. He corroborated everything, remembered everything,
494 4| unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones.
495 3| showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates
496 3| In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant,
497 1| Three Spirits.'' ~Scrooge's countenance fell almost as low as the
498 3| Also how she had seen a countess and a lord some days before,
499 2| quarter past,'' said Scrooge, counting. ~"Ding, dong!'' ~"Half
500 2| they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom
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