115-coupl | coura-grade | grape-other | outca-sleev | slept-zeal
Strophe
501 5| times, before he had the courage to go up and knock. But
502 2| the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker. In came the
503 3| married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the
504 4| pointed to the head. The cover was so carelessly adjusted
505 3| its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set
506 2| struck up "Sir Roger de Coverley.'' Then old Fezziwig stood
507 3| doorway, and taking off the covers as their bearers passed,
508 1| grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp
509 3| a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger,
510 1| not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel,
511 1| holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp-heat of the
512 3| guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths,
513 3| about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities
514 3| each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly,
515 4| indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor. We may
516 2| for his life to the little creek! Halloa! Hoop! Halloo!'' ~
517 4| immovable as ever. ~Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as
518 4| whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. ~
519 3| church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant
520 1| with "Humbug.'' ~"Don't be cross, uncle,'' said the nephew. ~"
521 2| Christmas, as they parted at cross-roads and bye-ways, for their
522 4| flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees,
523 1| To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all
524 1| Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my
525 2| about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung
526 1| beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of
527 2| wealth of all the world have crushed that braided hair, and torn
528 2| drying his eyes with his cuff: "but it's too late now.'' ~"
529 3| while Bob, turning up his cuffs -- as if, poor fellow, they
530 3| Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance. ~It is
531 3| years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for
532 2| little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell
533 1| window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked out. ~The air
534 3| icicles. Its dark brown curls were long and free: free
535 4| air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters,
536 2| with your partner, bow and curtsey;<PB n="62"> corkscrew; thread-the-needle,
537 3| glass; two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle. ~These
538 1| himself in, which was not his custom. Thus secured against surprise,
539 3| Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and
540 2| administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at
541 3| too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather,
542 2| asleep, at the Gate of Damascus; don't you see him! And
543 2| little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows
544 3| sage-and-onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted
545 2| again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler
546 3| shopkeepers' benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks,
547 1| ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he
548 2| the room became a little darker and more dirty. The panels
549 3| lost in the thick gloom of darkest night. ~"What place is this?''
550 3| and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look
551 2| younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms
552 3| which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild year through,
553 2| garden-sweep: the quick wheels dashing the hoar-frost and snow
554 3| inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose. ~
555 4| withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her
556 2| him!) struck up "Sir Roger de Coverley.'' Then old Fezziwig
557 1| regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in
558 3| them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water,
559 2| This is the even-handed dealing of the world!'' he said. "
560 1| were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop
561 4| Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove,
562 2| again. And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched
563 1| chilling influence of its death-cold eyes; and marked the very
564 4| then.'' ~"To whom will our debt be transferred?'' ~"I don'
565 2| cold. Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine,
566 2| broken, and their gates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted
567 1| had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy
568 3| and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what
569 3| generation beyond that, all decked out gaily in their holiday
570 3| said Bob, with a sudden declension in his high spirits; for
571 2| onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! The scaling him,
572 1| though with humility and deference. ~"Slow!'' the Ghost repeated. ~"
573 4| and looking with a bold defiance at the other two. ~"What
574 2| SOCALLED>cutSOCALLED> -- cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink
575 3| thinking better of it -- I defy him -- if he finds me going
576 3| menacing. No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity,
577 2| alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions
578 4| him and obtain a week's delay; and what I thought was
579 3| his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments
580 2| evergreens like spray. ~"Always a delicate creature, whom a breath
581 2| Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those
582 3| voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Girded
583 4| though they had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself. ~"
584 3| they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe.
585 4| and misery. ~Far in this den of infamous resort, there
586 3| unless the writing be erased. Deny it!'' cried the Spirit,
587 4| should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have
588 3| upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in
589 4| whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young. There
590 3| the Spirit. ~"You would deprive them of their means of dining
591 3| an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound
592 1| from which I might have derived good, by which I have not
593 3| whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms,
594 1| ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains. ~The
595 3| they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses
596 2| The school is not quite deserted,'' said the Ghost. "A solitary
597 2| Is that so much that he deserves this praise?'' ~"It isn'
598 1| with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.
599 1| it is more than usually desirable that we should make some
600 4| as to the end just now desired, until besought by Scrooge
601 2| of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely
602 3| red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen
603 2| but walking up and down despairingly. Scrooge looked at the Ghost,
604 3| with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley'
605 1| followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked
606 2| to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels,
607 2| the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging
608 3| had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered
609 1| provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the
610 4| would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night,
611 4| strong in his entreaty, and detained it. The Spirit, stronger
612 4| lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust, which could
613 1| Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him. There was something
614 1| it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian
615 2| and delight with which the development of every package was received!
616 3| might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing.
617 3| Marley. ~But they didn't devote the whole evening to music.
618 4| Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror. As they sat grouped
619 3| rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking
620 4| as before -- though at a different time, he thought: indeed,
621 4| this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from
622 3| might have endeavoured to diffuse in vain. ~For the people
623 5| stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he
624 2| from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.
625 2| burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its
626 3| exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital
627 3| deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often
628 3| angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other,
629 1| pretty dark with Scrooge's dip. ~Up Scrooge went, not caring
630 3| instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister. She
631 3| good humour was restored directly. For they said, it was a
632 1| joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the
633 4| their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling
634 3| the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which
635 2| a little darker and more dirty. The panels shrunk, the
636 3| a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal, a savage animal,
637 3| Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke;
638 2| brow!'' ~Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend
639 3| wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and
640 5| struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon,
641 3| capacious breast was bare, as if disdaining to be warded or concealed
642 3| while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing
643 4| like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell,
644 4| them with a detestation and disgust, which could hardly have
645 3| atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all
646 3| to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was
647 4| laugh. ~"Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all,''
648 1| on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts,
649 1| gentleman! <L>May nothing you dismay! QUOTE>Scrooge seized the
650 1| Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going
651 2| packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore;
652 1| With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly
653 1| thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them
654 3| s elbow stood the family display of glass; two tumblers,
655 4| chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each, upon the
656 2| without a body: of which dissolving parts, no outline would
657 1| Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful
658 2| itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with
659 2| of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from
660 1| be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping
661 4| inquired what had happened to distress him. "On which,'' said Bob, "
662 1| unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done
663 1| happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room,
664 2| with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets, despoil
665 1| were only for a second, to divert the vision's stony gaze
666 3| negative was sufficient to have diverted their thoughts from Mr Scrooge,
667 1| he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one
668 3| this Spirit. He was not the dogged Scrooge he had been; and
669 3| Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.'' ~
670 2| in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth,
671 2| clock struck eleven, this domestic ball broke up. Mr and Mrs
672 4| command: for this is thy dominion! But of the loved, revered,
673 3| see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
674 1| do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world --
675 1| whom it saw below, upon a door-step. The misery with them all
676 3| beside him in a baker's doorway, and taking off the covers
677 1| would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then
678 5| coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit.'' ~
679 3| all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted
680 3| lamplighter, who ran on before, dotting the dusky street with specks
681 1| Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed,'' cried the phantom, "not
682 1| asked Scrooge, looking doubtfully at him. ~"I can.'' ~"Do
683 4| apply them. But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they
684 2| was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using,
685 2| that you would choose a dowerless girl -- you who, in your
686 2| looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a
687 2| he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed
688 2| embrace him. Then she began to drag him, in her childish eagerness,
689 4| unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and heavy roll
690 3| beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like
691 2| who was put down in his drawers, asleep, at the Gate of
692 3| midnight. Hark! The time is drawing near.'' ~The chimes were
693 1| even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event,
694 2| The man thought he was dreaming, but he wasn't. It was the
695 2| made plain enough, by the dressing of the shops, that here
696 3| said she, "on which one drinks the health of such an odious,
697 2| behind the panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout
698 2| country gigs and carts, driven by farmers. All these boys
699 1| see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything,
700 3| each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it,
701 2| willingly; and getting into it, drove gaily down the garden-sweep:
702 2| overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being
703 1| previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the
704 2| looking about him, after drying his eyes with his cuff: "
705 1| apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin,
706 2| occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher
707 4| up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful
708 1| cold. If the good Saint Dunstan had but nipped the Evil
709 3| his hungry brothers in the dust!'' ~Scrooge bent before
710 3| the apple-sauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took
711 3| mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers. I mean to give
712 2| Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature. ~"No. Your past.'' ~
713 3| pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their
714 4| It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost. ~ ~
715 1| whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning!'' <PB n="18">~
716 2| and vast. There was an earthy savour in the air, a chilly
717 3| himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath
718 4| child; we shall not quarrel easily among ourselves, and forget
719 1| a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts,
720 3| the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next
721 2| used to be. ~Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak
722 2| gratitude.'' ~"Small!'' echoed Scrooge. ~The Spirit signed
723 1| very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded
724 3| of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed
725 4| on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking
726 3| to which he was exposed, elicited from him that he was thinking
727 | elsewhere
728 4| long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer. ~"Is it good.''
729 1| involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation. But the ghost
730 2| contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with
731 2| and stood on tiptoe to embrace him. Then she began to drag
732 3| And at the same time there emerged from scores of bye-streets,
733 2| degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlour,
734 1| therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead
735 2| the young men and women employed in the business. In came
736 4| spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act. But
737 3| laughed at any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment,
738 5| ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling
739 1| seized the ruler with such energy of action that the singer
740 2| the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?'' ~"What
741 3| opportunities of innocent enjoyment.'' ~"I!'' cried the Spirit. ~"
742 3| parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude. ~"Spirit! are
743 1| faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell.
744 3| Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared
745 2| either hand. The city had entirely vanished. Not a vestige
746 3| juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried
747 1| wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose
748 3| pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness
749 3| or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express
750 5| Walk-<EMPH rend="sc">er!'' exclaimed the boy. ~"
751 3| Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!'' cried the Spirit,
752 1| visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain
753 3| corner whence there was no escape; then his conduct was the
754 1| yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope
755 3| another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister
756 3| right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference
757 4| of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God! ~"Spectre,''
758 3| hands; and lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round
759 1| merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost
760 4| of standing well in their esteem: in a business point of
761 1| this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which
762 4| he used, these few last evenings, mother.'' ~They were very
763 2| off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray. ~"Always a delicate
764 2| dismissed from public life for evermore; the<PB n="59"> floor was
765 5| man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all
766 2| they all came, anyhow and everyhow. Away they all went, twenty
767 | everywhere
768 1| as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on
769 1| said Scrooge. ~"What evidence would you have of my reality
770 4| trembling. The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded
771 3| danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to
772 3| with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously followed. ~"
773 5| the boy, were only to be exceeded by the chuckle with which
774 1| event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very
775 2| after sight of this First of Exchange pay to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge
776 3| parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball --
777 3| three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down
778 3| his conduct was the most execrable. For his pretending not
779 1| years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator,
780 1| admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the Tank, who instantly
781 2| Princess!'' ~To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his
782 1| afternoon. And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it
783 3| questioning to which he was exposed, elicited from him that
784 4| his plunder. It was not extensive. A seal or two, a pencil-case,
785 3| and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and
786 1| one degree at Christmas. ~External heat and cold had little
787 1| he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for
788 2| over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action
789 1| over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth
790 5| parties to every kind of extravagance. ~"I don't know what to
791 3| twisting his face into the most extravagant contortions: Scrooge's niece,
792 3| between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a
793 1| he would see him in that extremity first. ~"But why?'' cried
794 3| Blessings on it, how the Ghost exulted! How it bared its breadth
795 3| it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse!
796 1| a strong imagination, he failed. ~"A merry Christmas, uncle!
797 1| knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.
798 3| coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious.
799 3| because I haven't great faith in these young housekeepers.
800 Pre| one wish to lay it. ~Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. ~
801 3| anybody else. If you had fallen up against him (as some
802 1| Jacob?'' he demanded, in a faltering voice. ~"It is.'' ~"I --
803 4| his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand,
804 1| little of what is called fancy about him as any man in
805 1| one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when
806 2| gigs and carts, driven by farmers. All these boys were in
807 4| his child would have been farther apart perhaps than they
808 5| said Scrooge. "Not a farthing less. A great many back-payments
809 3| to show his linen in the fashionable Parks. And now two smaller
810 3| me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance.
811 1| surrounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable: but he could
812 1| he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse
813 3| Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish
814 4| company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much
815 4| Spirit!'' he said, "this is a fearful place. In leaving it, I
816 5| stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel,
817 1| through the air on clouds like feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars,
818 3| the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black
819 4| dread purposes, or make one feature odious. It is not that the
820 4| his nose. "But I must be fed, if I make one.'' ~Another
821 2| lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down
822 3| handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah! ~There never
823 4| person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man'
824 5| voice, as near as he could feign it. "What do you mean by
825 3| purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize
826 2| briskly in, accompanied by his fellow-'prentice. ~"Dick Wilkins,
827 1| I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down,
828 1| should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide;
829 1| them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another
830 2| pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of
831 2| it!'' cried Scrooge with fervour; "I could walk it blindfold.'' ~"
832 1| credentials back. ~"At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,''
833 3| shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those
834 3| familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from the boarding-school,
835 1| shadowy hands. ~"You are fettered,'' said Scrooge, trembling. "
836 2| In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In
837 2| suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden
838 3| was ready for a good broad field of strange appearances,
839 3| caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth. ~
840 3| sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the
841 3| bilious. Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or
842 3| with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be:
843 3| passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling,
844 4| nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse
845 5| people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset;
846 4| reeked with crime, with filth, and misery. ~Far in this
847 3| it -- I defy him -- if he finds me going there, in good
848 1| little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous
849 3| We'd a deal of work to finish up last night,'' replied
850 3| clapping her hands. "He never finishes what he begins to say. He
851 1| Lumber-room as usual. Old fire-guard, old shoes, two fish-baskets,
852 3| nature. Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over the chairs,
853 5| again, and going round the fire-place. "There's the door, by which
854 2| and her mother at his own fireside; and when he thought that
855 1| fire-guard, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three
856 3| bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly. The two young Cratchits
857 1| expression. ~As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon, it was
858 1| its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it
859 4| when old Joe, producing a flannel bag with money in it, told
860 2| hollow, melancholy ONE. Light flashed up in the room upon the
861 3| family. It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit
862 4| floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing
863 1| of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole
864 3| might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it,'' was
865 3| was wonderful. Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations
866 1| coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a
867 1| sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had
868 2| conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected
869 3| chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their
870 2| under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground. ~He was
871 1| noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the
872 3| doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something
873 2| dress trimmed with summer flowers. But the strangest thing
874 1| be hard upon me! Don't be flowery, Jacob! Pray!'' ~"How it
875 2| dark, so the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being
876 1| its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground
877 5| on my knees!'' ~He was so fluttered and so glowing with his
878 3| rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into
879 1| sallied out to buy the beef. ~Foggier yet, and colder! Piercing,
880 1| the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its
881 5| torn down,'' cried Scrooge, folding one of his bed-curtains
882 3| Look here.'' ~From the foldings of its robe, it brought
883 2| Ghost, "to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.'' ~"
884 2| lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke.
885 4| trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the
886 4| returned the woman. "I an't so fond of his company that I'd
887 2| having his daughter leaning fondly on him, sat down with her
888 4| with a laugh. "Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I took
889 1| live in such a world of fools as this Merry Christmas!
890 3| be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you
891 1| business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were,
892 2| gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!'' ~"She died a woman,''
893 2| him in both his arms, and forced him to observe what happened
894 4| up now, what would be his foremost thoughts? Avarice, hard-dealing,
895 4| stood. ~"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which,
896 2| Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?'' asked Scrooge. ~"
897 1| I wear the chain I forged in life,'' replied the Ghost. "
898 4| clasped hands. She prayed forgiveness the next moment, and was
899 1| as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time:
900 3| Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes,
901 2| and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper
902 2| house, but one of broken fortunes; for the spacious offices
903 4| woman, laughing and leaning forward on her crossed arms. "Bed-curtains!'' ~"
904 1| was still incredulous, and fought against his senses. ~"How
905 3| Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house! ~Then up rose Mrs
906 2| and their gates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in
907 1| mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
908 3| brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the
909 1| and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. ~"Let me
910 3| limbs supported by an iron frame! ~"Why, where's our Martha?''
911 3| Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished
912 2| we were one in heart, is fraught with misery now that we
913 3| nervous. ~Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves
914 1| open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people
915 2| softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears. ~The
916 2| thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly
917 3| moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest
918 3| and touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled
919 3| their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their
920 2| Parrot, you know. There goes Friday, running for his life to
921 3| of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have
922 3| comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him;
923 5| Whoop! Hallo!'' ~He had frisked into the sitting-room, and
924 3| snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and
925 3| snow-storms. ~The house fronts looked black enough, and
926 1| in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and
927 4| the cold air without, by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous
928 1| word "liberality'', Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and
929 3| like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet,
930 1| oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped
931 3| oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished
932 3| still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory.
933 2| act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was
934 1| endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat
935 3| mantle, bordered with white fur. This garment hung so loosely
936 3| handsome girls, all hooded and fur-booted, and all chattering at once,
937 1| impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind
938 2| they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast. There was
939 4| still, but not his. The furniture was not the same, and the
940 3| nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse, rank grass.
941 4| told out their several gains upon the ground. "This is
942 2| You're right, I will not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!'' ~"
943 1| his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his
944 3| sturdy song that was like a Gale in itself. ~Again the Ghost
945 3| rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to
946 4| bundle, Joe.'' ~But the gallantry of her friends would not
947 5| Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful
948 3| or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not
949 2| it, drove gaily down the garden-sweep: the quick wheels dashing
950 1| tomorrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and
951 1| the gloom. Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn'
952 1| labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great
953 2| windows broken, and their gates decayed. Fowls clucked and
954 1| hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed
955 1| ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and
956 3| on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought
957 3| imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart, that
958 3| clothes, and with their gayest faces. And at the same time
959 1| divert the vision's stony gaze from himself. ~"I do,''
960 2| boy here!'' ~The Spirit gazed upon him mildly. Its gentle
961 3| s children, and another generation beyond that, all decked
962 2| turned upside-down by the Genii; there he is upon his head!
963 1| that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful
964 3| and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself
965 3| couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see: who bore
966 3| were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself
967 5| as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry
968 3| that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate
969 2| to other boys in country gigs and carts, driven by farmers.
970 4| nose, that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock. ~"I haven'
971 3| hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred
972 2| what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if
973 2| Why was he filled with gladness when he heard them give
974 1| the street to say, with gladsome looks, "My dear Scrooge,
975 2| entering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of
976 1| staring at those fixed, glazed eyes, in silence for a moment,
977 4| explanation. ~The Phantom glided on into a street. Its finger
978 1| fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World,
979 3| through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the
980 2| them! Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as
981 3| bright gleaming berries glistened. The crisp leaves of holly,
982 2| as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now
983 2| celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy
984 3| fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round,
985 4| for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch.
986 2| swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The
987 4| and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone.
988 3| however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob
989 1| persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation.
990 2| children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and getting
991 3| contagious as laughter and good-humour. When Scrooge's nephew laughed
992 5| word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, "Good morning,
993 3| Scrooge. But being thoroughly good-natured, and not much caring what
994 3| which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she
995 5| pardon. And will you have the goodness --'' here Scrooge whispered
996 1| down at Scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall, became
997 1| few (they might be guilty governments) were linked together; none
998 3| poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which
999 3| dishes were set on, and grace was said. It was succeeded
1000 3| perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries
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