115-coupl | coura-grade | grape-other | outca-sleev | slept-zeal
Strophe
1001 3| pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers'
1002 2| upon him at that time. The grasp, though gentle as a woman'
1003 1| a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous
1004 1| sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready;
1005 1| spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was
1006 3| people's mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were
1007 4| I~The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When
1008 4| The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One.
1009 4| rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought. Upon
1010 3| that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs
1011 2| avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the
1012 1| outer door to bestow the greeting of the season on the clerk,
1013 3| noticed that its hair was grey. ~"Are spirits' lives so
1014 4| made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years
1015 2| I have no just cause to grieve.'' ~"What Idol has displaced
1016 4| mind it, father. Don't be grieved!'' ~Bob was very cheerful
1017 1| tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching,
1018 4| with you!'' retorted Peter, grinning. ~"It's just as likely as
1019 5| wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less
1020 4| Avarice, hard-dealing, griping cares? They have brought
1021 3| humour possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank
1022 3| Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them: the elder,
1023 2| see him! And the Sultan's Groom turned upside-down by the
1024 1| every stone, was fain to grope with his hands. The fog
1025 2| scrambled out of bed, and groped his way to the window. He
1026 4| dialogue in horror. As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the
1027 2| various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning
1028 3| that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which,
1029 2| the open air. ~"My time grows short,'' observed the Spirit. "
1030 1| tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping
1031 3| animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes,
1032 3| themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed
1033 3| quite loud, and vey often guessed quite right, too; for the
1034 2| false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I
1035 1| some few (they might be guilty governments) were linked
1036 3| and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth,
1037 2| been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life, his
1038 1| heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast
1039 1| before him in the gloom. Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street
1040 3| firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight
1041 3| late last Christmas Day by half-an-hour!'' ~"Here's Martha, mother!''
1042 3| and piling up its fires half-chimney high. Blessings on it, how
1043 4| of her heart. ~"What the half-drunken woman whom I told you of
1044 4| houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly.
1045 2| Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself
1046 2| panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull
1047 2| life to the little creek! Halloa! Hoop! Halloo!'' ~Then,
1048 2| little creek! Halloa! Hoop! Halloo!'' ~Then, with a rapidity
1049 3| they never do anything by halves. They are always in earnest. ~
1050 1| perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the
1051 1| and shook his head, and handed the credentials back. ~"
1052 1| sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. The fireplace was
1053 1| SOCALLED>came downSOCALLED> handsomely, and Scrooge never did. ~
1054 5| room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the time before
1055 4| foremost thoughts? Avarice, hard-dealing, griping cares? They have
1056 3| venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily as this, I don't mind calling
1057 3| To-night at midnight. Hark! The time is drawing near.'' ~
1058 3| moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter
1059 3| generous hand, its bright and harmless mirth on everything within
1060 3| niece played well upon the harp; and played among other
1061 2| life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later
1062 | hast
1063 1| and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went.
1064 4| underwent no change. ~Scrooge hastened to the window of his office,
1065 3| passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness
1066 1| and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge's office.
1067 3| was necessary to touch her head-dress, and further to assure himself
1068 4| spectral hand and one great heap of black. ~"Ghost of the
1069 4| gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone. What they wanted in the
1070 5| minutes. Nothing could be heartier. His niece looked just the
1071 3| proceedings which had no heartiness. Tiny Tim drank it last
1072 1| at Christmas. ~External heat and cold had little influence
1073 5| dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry
1074 1| know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail,
1075 3| on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until,
1076 2| reclamation, then. Take heed!'' ~It put out its strong
1077 5| let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough
1078 2| and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would
1079 3| conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day) into
1080 3| ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out
1081 4| pretty well that we were helping ourselves, before we met
1082 2| and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not
1083 3| It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit would
1084 | herself
1085 4| has got his own at last, hey?'' ~"So I am told,'' returned
1086 3| Martha, hide!'' ~So Martha hid herself, and in came little
1087 1| young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have
1088 3| wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down
1089 1| and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the
1090 2| he sobbed. ~They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane,
1091 2| not high praise, tell me higher, and I'll use it. A positive
1092 1| forgotten with a chamber in the highest story of the building. It
1093 3| modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything
1094 3| Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing. ~At last
1095 3| beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed
1096 1| with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless
1097 2| quick wheels dashing the hoar-frost and snow from off the dark
1098 4| We're not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I
1099 1| I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep
1100 3| bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And
1101 4| the loved, revered, and honoured head, thou canst not turn
1102 4| alteration in the Phantom's hood and dress. It shrunk, collapsed,
1103 3| dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people's mouths might
1104 2| the little creek! Halloa! Hoop! Halloo!'' ~Then, with a
1105 3| hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that
1106 3| shape not unlike Plenty's horn, and held it up, high up,
1107 3| awful sea. Joining their horny hands over the rough table
1108 3| became livid! All sorts of horrors were supposed. ~Hallo! A
1109 1| their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct
1110 3| was rich. In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every
1111 1| stirred, as if by breath or hot-air; and, though the eyes were
1112 1| Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little
1113 2| the business. In came the housemaid, with her cousin, the baker.
1114 3| were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of
1115 3| that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren
1116 2| on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel
1117 3| his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart'
1118 3| degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all
1119 3| but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had
1120 3| More than eighteen hundred,'' said the Ghost. ~"A tremendous
1121 3| glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe. There were pears
1122 4| Scrooge, "through which we hurry now, is where my place of
1123 5| and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children
1124 4| to her face. ~"The colour hurts my eyes,'' she said. ~The
1125 4| lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear
1126 3| the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off
1127 3| shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced
1128 1| and turned to misanthropic ice. The brightness of the shops
1129 1| always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days;
1130 2| The clock was wrong. An icicle must have got into the works.
1131 3| here and there with shining icicles. Its dark brown curls were
1132 3| the thick yellow mud and icy water. The sky was gloomy,
1133 3| to assure himself of her identity by pressing a certain ring
1134 1| Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with "Merry
1135 3| half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with
1136 3| their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware
1137 1| Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures. There were
1138 5| a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long,
1139 4| that very place for his own image; but another man stood in
1140 1| being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. ~"A merry Christmas,
1141 2| see, but it produced an immediate effect. For again Scrooge
1142 4| show me!'' ~The Spirit was immovable as ever. ~Scrooge crept
1143 2| I was a boy,'' he said impatiently. ~"Your own feeling tells
1144 1| Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects
1145 3| Scrooge!'' ~Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light
1146 1| to see me.'' No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
1147 1| nothing. ~"Jacob,'' he said, imploringly. "Old Jacob Marley, tell
1148 1| to hear it.'' ~"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish
1149 1| immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and
1150 2| in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our
1151 1| resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and
1152 4| latent moral for his own improvement, he resolved to treasure
1153 4| in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind
1154 1| it were too warm to wear in-doors, its lower jaw dropped down
1155 3| ought to have been "Yes;'' inasmuch as an answer in the negative
1156 3| and thanked them in an inaudible speech, if the Ghost had
1157 3| bearers passed, sprinkled incense on their dinners from his
1158 2| loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake
1159 2| that if he had been two inches taller he must have knocked
1160 5| great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you. Will
1161 1| the City of London, even including -- which is a bold word --
1162 1| confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and
1163 3| receipt of that bewildering income. Martha, who was a poor
1164 2| Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its
1165 3| mashed the potatoes with incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened
1166 1| observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his
1167 2| and ecstasy! They are all indescribable alike. It is enough that
1168 1| would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance. ~"Oh!
1169 2| hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished
1170 4| do you point away?'' ~The inexorable finger underwent no change. ~
1171 1| astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked,
1172 4| misery. ~Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed,
1173 1| had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue. But he
1174 1| a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon
1175 1| s being provided with an infernal atmosphere of its own. Scrooge
1176 5| word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who
1177 4| said Scrooge, "something informs me that our parting moment
1178 3| people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment.'' ~"I!'' cried
1179 3| and nameless turnings, innumerable people, carrying their dinners
1180 2| life. He then made bold to inquire what business brought him
1181 2| within himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all a dream,
1182 3| child. Oh God! to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing
1183 2| in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to
1184 2| Something, I think?'' the Ghost insisted. ~"No,'' said Scrooge, "
1185 3| worn outside for general inspection, and for Christmas daws
1186 2| heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the
1187 1| Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance -- literally to astonish
1188 2| though it had been light and instantaneous, appeared still present
1189 5| replied the lad. ~"An intelligent boy!'' said Scrooge. "A
1190 1| up there. The cold became intense. In the main street, at
1191 2| reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge
1192 5| so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would
1193 4| before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me. Assure
1194 3| be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion,
1195 1| without its undergoing any intermediate process of change: not a
1196 3| loses a very good dinner,'' interrupted Scrooge's niece. Everybody
1197 3| him through Jacob Marley's intervention. But, finding that he turned
1198 1| that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. ~"
1199 3| streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace
1200 3| should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate
1201 3| deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he
1202 1| The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately
1203 1| being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing
1204 5| that I may give them the irection where to take it. Come back
1205 1| as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom
1206 2| back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of
1207 1| did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door;
1208 2| after sailing round the island. "Poor Robin Crusoe, where
1209 2| positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves.
1210 3| expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight
1211 1| your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen
1212 2| before a man can say, Jack Robinson!'' ~You wouldn'
1213 3| almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge,
1214 1| wear in-doors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast! ~
1215 1| its teeth made, when the jaws were brought together by
1216 3| missile far than many a wordy jest -- laughing heartily if
1217 2| there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this
1218 5| He was on his stool in a jiffy; driving away with his pen,
1219 2| consciousness of us.'' ~The jocund travellers came on; and
1220 3| brightness on the awful sea. Joining their horny hands over the
1221 3| game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long
1222 1| in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his
1223 3| dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few
1224 3| unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air. Girded round its middle
1225 3| merriment, and passed the bottle joyously. ~After tea, they had some
1226 2| thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten. ~"
1227 3| a glow! ~But, if you had judged from the numbers of people
1228 3| allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had
1229 3| rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the
1230 2| He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in
1231 2| inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short,
1232 3| Spirit passed: though little kenned the lamplighter that he
1233 1| replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own
1234 1| very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and
1235 2| neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible
1236 3| menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not
1237 3| us and all out kith and kin, as if they had never lived.
1238 4| them of the extraordinary kindness of Mr Scrooge's nephew,
1239 3| might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness
1240 1| was; for they had been two kindred spirits. At the ominous
1241 3| strange to us and all out kith and kin, as if they had
1242 4| Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through
1243 3| hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its feet, and clung
1244 3| table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah! ~
1245 4| stopped beside one little knot of business men. Observing
1246 4| unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large and
1247 1| Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous
1248 1| corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes,
1249 1| withdrew. Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion
1250 5| hope I did,'' replied the lad. ~"An intelligent boy!''
1251 2| scaling him, with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets,
1252 3| Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind
1253 1| air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly
1254 1| berries crackled in the lamp-heat of the windows, made pale
1255 3| clustered round the fire, by lamplight. ~"Well! I'm very glad to
1256 3| he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks,
1257 3| were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at
1258 3| from scores of bye-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings,
1259 4| announced itself in awful language. ~The room was very dark,
1260 5| breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "
1261 2| Scrooge's former self grew larger at the words, and the room
1262 2| to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and
1263 1| house. ~This might have lasted half a minute, or a minute,
1264 4| some one having been there, lately. Poor Bob sat down in it,
1265 1| conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need
1266 2| the ceiling, and the naked laths were shown instead; but
1267 5| long, long line of briliant laughs! ~"I don't know what day
1268 1| The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?''
1269 2| axe stuck in his belt, and leading an ass laden with wood by
1270 3| to hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much
1271 2| behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent
1272 3| reef of sunken rocks, some league or so from shore, on which
1273 1| in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied
1274 2| eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past! Why
1275 1| coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried, "
1276 5| therefore,'' he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving
1277 2| Heaven knows! When I have learned a Truth like this, I know
1278 3| night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working
1279 1| cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses
1280 2| with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now
1281 1| assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole
1282 1| my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own
1283 4| I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell
1284 3| spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose
1285 1| Bedlam.'' ~This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had
1286 2| tail, with a thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of
1287 2| Scrooge remonstrated, "and liable to fall.'' ~"Bear but a
1288 4| I'd repent of being so liberal and knock off half-a-crown.'' ~"
1289 2| to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have
1290 4| wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he'd have
1291 4| would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed
1292 2| confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and
1293 3| there stood a solitary lighthouse. Great heaps of sea-weed
1294 4| for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes
1295 3| chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.
1296 3| the alphabet. <PB n="115">Likewise at the game of How, When,
1297 3| little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame! ~"
1298 1| roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole;
1299 3| and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks.
1300 1| I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never
1301 1| guilty governments) were linked together; none were free.
1302 1| people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services
1303 2| long, forgotten. ~"Your lip is trembling,'' said the
1304 1| gentlemen, referring to his list. "Have I the pleasure of
1305 3| spread itself wheresoever it listed; or would have done so,
1306 4| Bye, bye!'' ~Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed
1307 1| Churchyard for instance -- literally to astonish his son's weak
1308 1| corporation, aldermen, and livery. Let it also be borne in
1309 3| ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a
1310 1| light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was
1311 1| Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him
1312 4| of his company that I'd loiter about him for such things,
1313 5| clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him. ~"
1314 3| of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling
1315 4| their play. ~At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried
1316 4| easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but had no more
1317 3| sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently
1318 3| a fire, that through the loophole in the thick stone wall
1319 2| raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of
1320 3| fur. This garment hung so loosely on the figure, that its
1321 3| the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner.'' ~"Indeed,
1322 1| ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation. You're quite
1323 4| Who's the worse for the loss of a few things like these?
1324 2| the door; and he, nothing loth to go, accompanied her. ~
1325 2| my lads, and let's have lots of room here! Hilli-ho,
1326 1| he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then
1327 2| Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers
1328 4| infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a
1329 1| gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard,
1330 1| retire to Bedlam.'' ~This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew
1331 3| have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing.
1332 3| cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes,
1333 5| churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard.
1334 3| bit behindhand, roared out lustily. ~"Ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha!'' ~"
1335 2| round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, the sheen of which
1336 1| he would have roared to lusty purpose. The owner of one
1337 3| their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage-and-onion,
1338 4| smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement. ~Scrooge
1339 3| their houses: whence it was mad delight to the boys to see
1340 3| to a lie of such enormous magnitude. ~"Spirit! are they yours?''
1341 1| cold became intense. In the main street, at the corner of
1342 5| eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.
1343 1| wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common
1344 3| anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite
1345 3| one simple green robe, or mantle, bordered with white fur.
1346 2| ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial
1347 1| its death-cold eyes; and marked the very texture of the
1348 3| and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or
1349 2| and tree; until a little market-town appeared in the distance,
1350 4| had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse itself. ~"Ha,
1351 1| voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones. ~To sit, staring
1352 2| off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have
1353 2| Fezziwig would have been a match for them, and so would Mrs.
1354 4| our calling, we're well matched. Come into the parlour.
1355 2| he saw her, now a comely matron, sitting opposite her daughter.
1356 2| resolved within himself, after mature inquiry, that it was all
1357 | Meanwhile
1358 2| to save my life. As to measuring her waist in sport, as they
1359 1| Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold. ~
1360 2| through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance
1361 3| devils lurked, and glared out menacing. No change, no degradation,
1362 3| anybody, and didn't live in a menagerie, and was never killed in
1363 1| one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all
1364 4| on Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down,
1365 4| life tends that way, now. Merciful Heaven, what is this!'' ~
1366 4| fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor.
1367 2| All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond
1368 2| Christmas long, and have the merriest time in all the world.'' ~"
1369 3| conference with the second messenger despatched to him through
1370 1| Queens of Sheba, Angelic messengers descending through the air
1371 4| an't such a rusty bit of metal in the place as its own
1372 2| squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panneling, not
1373 1| there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning
1374 3| cried Scrooge. ~"To-night at midnight. Hark! The time is drawing
1375 4| child, and set him in the midst of them.'''' ~Where had
1376 2| s particular friend, the milkman. In came the boy from over
1377 5| the size of Tiny Tim. Joe Miller never made such a joke as
1378 3| was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told them what kind
1379 3| and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child.
1380 3| Scrooge. ~"A place where Miners live, who labour in the
1381 2| latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged
1382 1| and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men.
1383 4| is past hope, if such a miracle has happened.'' ~"He is
1384 3| light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there;
1385 3| its bright and harmless mirth on everything within its
1386 1| congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. The brightness of the
1387 4| by a frousy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line;
1388 3| abject, frightful, hideous, miserable. They knelt down at its
1389 5| upside down, tearing them, mislaying them, making them parties
1390 3| snowball -- better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest --
1391 5| earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the
1392 3| committed hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible;
1393 1| one life's opportunities misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such
1394 4| listeners strolled away, and mixed with other groups. Scrooge
1395 3| shabby -- compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons,
1396 3| French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated
1397 3| was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French
1398 3| so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest
1399 5| nearer to the ruler. He had a momentary idea of knocking Scrooge
1400 1| shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty
1401 1| the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys
1402 3| wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread. ~
1403 5| don't know what day of the month it is!'' said Scrooge. "
1404 1| through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
1405 3| pleased to find him in this mood, and looked upon him with
1406 2| every part of the dance like moons. You couldn't have predicted,
1407 4| applied they had some latent moral for his own improvement,
1408 1| what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.'' ~
1409 3| prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse, rank
1410 3| thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty
1411 4| were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses
1412 2| of a fair young girl in a mourning-dress: in whose eyes there were
1413 2| done in a minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it
1414 3| health. Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at
1415 1| cheer of mind or body to the multitude,'' returned the gentleman, "
1416 4| likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the
1417 1| scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones
1418 5| know what to say to such munifi‐'' ~"don't say anything,
1419 3| stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round
1420 2| arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as
1421 1| repeated. ~"Seven years dead,'' mused Scrooge. "And travelling
1422 2| In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty
1423 3| some music. For they were a musical family, and knew what they
1424 1| undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment
1425 3| any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has
1426 4| beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with
1427 4| seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. ~It was shrouded in a deep
1428 4| up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files,
1429 2| of the ceiling, and the naked laths were shown instead;
1430 2| they came, Scrooge knew and named them every one. Why was
1431 3| bye-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings, innumerable people,
1432 1| but he answered to both names. It was all the same to
1433 1| although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were
1434 4| the woman, "why wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had
1435 1| Christmas. "Good afternoon!'' ~"Nay, uncle, but you never came
1436 1| thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are
1437 1| impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation.
1438 3| asked Scrooge. ~"Because it needs it most.'' ~"Spirit,'' said
1439 3| inasmuch as an answer in the negative was sufficient to have diverted
1440 2| was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece
1441 3| lightly off to some near neighbour's house; where, woe upon
1442 | neither
1443 | nevertheless
1444 4| thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions carried out
1445 4| she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after
1446 1| and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of
1447 5| said Scrooge to the girl. Nice girl! Very. ~"Yes, sir.'' ~"
1448 3| consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial
1449 1| dressing-gown and slippers, and his night-cap; and sat down before the
1450 2| slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold
1451 3| is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that
1452 2| reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one
1453 1| became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds
1454 3| fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed: ~"A
1455 4| Quiet. Very quiet. The noisy little Cratchits were as
1456 2| sun, and this is twelve at noon!'' ~The idea being an alarming
1457 3| withered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy,
1458 2| they all came, one after nother; some shyly, some boldly,
1459 3| together in an open place, he noticed that its hair was grey. ~"
1460 | nowhere
1461 1| justified in indicting it for a nuisance. ~"Oh! captive, bound, and
1462 3| you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to
1463 3| and bade him enter. He obeyed. ~It was his own room. There
1464 3| universal sentiment, though some objected that the reply to "Is it
1465 1| impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had
1466 4| greater, though they had been obscene demons, marketing the corpse
1467 4| scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where
1468 1| cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have
1469 3| any artifice. Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds
1470 2| past?'' inquired Scrooge: observant of its dwarfish stature. ~"
1471 4| when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay; and what
1472 3| which would bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence
1473 4| now, is where my place of occupation is, and has been for a length
1474 1| with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon,
1475 1| first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful
1476 1| water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!'' ~It held
1477 2| conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each
1478 4| bottles, bones, and greasy offal, were bought. Upon the floor
1479 2| disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge of having
1480 3| look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark,
1481 3| and bonnet for her with officious zeal. ~"We'd a deal of work
1482 3| for it. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention
1483 4| coolly. "don't drop that oil upon the blankets, now.'' ~"
1484 2| called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: ~"
1485 4| little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair
1486 1| kindred spirits. At the ominous word "liberality'', Scrooge
1487 1| distance, was what the knowing ones call <SOCALLED>nutsSOCALLED>
1488 3| were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! But now,
1489 3| brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness
1490 2| the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless
1491 4| answered not, but pointed onward with its hand. ~"You are
1492 2| transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He
1493 1| Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?'' ~"They are. Still,''
1494 3| street in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown-faced,
1495 2| lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty
1496 1| might Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers
1497 2| himself, from his shows to his organ of benevolence; and called
1498 1| due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to
1499 2| and his wild brother, Orson; there they go! And what'
1500 | others
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