115-coupl | coura-grade | grape-other | outca-sleev | slept-zeal
Strophe
2002 2| Scrooge, "that I can have slept through a whole day and
2003 1| great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end
2004 4| carelessly adjusted that the slightest raising of it, the motion
2005 1| bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a
2006 4| people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways,
2007 4| think he has walked a little slower than he used, these few
2008 4| woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. But she had
2009 3| their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went
2010 1| neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown
2011 3| outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it
2012 5| over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob!<ILLUS> Make
2013 4| and having trimmed his smoky lamp (for it was night),
2014 3| bumping against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains,
2015 5| that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute,
2016 3| of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to
2017 3| splitting into artificial little snow-storms. ~The house fronts looked
2018 3| then exchanging a facetious snowball -- better-natured missile
2019 3| it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge
2020 4| taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box. "
2021 4| snuff out of a very large snuff-box. "I thought he'd never die.'' ~"
2022 1| the Tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put
2023 2| said he knew it. And he sobbed. ~They left the high-road,
2024 5| to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict
2025 2| I am!'' ~The voice was soft and gentle. Singularly low,
2026 4| hearts, Caroline!'' ~Yes. Soften it as they would, their
2027 3| came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought
2028 2| heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer
2029 5| you know whether they've sold the prize Turkey that was
2030 1| day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. ~
2031 1| water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly
2032 4| missed, and would render the solution of these riddles easy. ~
2033 | somewhere
2034 3| particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys
2035 2| beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your
2036 3| infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the
2037 3| began to think that the source and secret of this ghostly
2038 4| springing from the wound, to sow the world with life immortal. ~
2039 2| broken fortunes; for the spacious offices were little used,
2040 3| resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley. ~
2041 1| width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason
2042 3| kind Spirit! say he will be spared.'' ~"If these shadows remain
2043 1| extinguished the last frail spark for ever. ~"Let me hear
2044 3| as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its
2045 4| whenever we met. Bye, bye!'' ~Speakers and listeners strolled away,
2046 2| heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former,
2047 2| asked him; but he had a special desire to see the Spirit
2048 3| with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and
2049 3| dotting the dusky street with specks of light, and who was dressed
2050 1| used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up upon its ghostly
2051 3| thanked them in an inaudible speech, if the Ghost had given
2052 4| praised the industry and speed of Mrs Cratchit and the
2053 3| ground. But he raised them speedily, on hearing his own name. ~"
2054 3| and who was dressed to spend the evening somewhere, laughed
2055 2| Why! Is it not? He has spent but a few pounds of your
2056 1| working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will
2057 3| and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied
2058 1| taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the
2059 4| sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded
2060 4| teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this
2061 3| moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having
2062 1| small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the
2063 3| upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest
2064 2| to measuring her waist in sport, as they did, bold young
2065 2| beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young
2066 1| out after dark in a breezy spot -- say Saint Paul's Churchyard
2067 3| candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to
2068 2| leaves of the evergreens like spray. ~"Always a delicate creature,
2069 1| of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in
2070 2| called him father, and been a spring-time in the haggard winter of
2071 4| And see his good deeds springing from the wound, to sow the
2072 3| peculiar flavour in what you sprinkle from your torch?'' asked
2073 3| as their bearers passed, sprinkled incense on their dinners
2074 3| Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch. Think of that!
2075 3| happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at
2076 2| crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light,
2077 1| better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, "Bah!''
2078 3| the chesnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily. Then
2079 3| there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off
2080 2| echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice
2081 2| He gave the cap a parting squeeze, in which his hand relaxed;
2082 1| the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping,
2083 2| clucked and strutted in the stables; and the coach-houses and
2084 2| round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping;
2085 2| his feet again without a stagger. ~When the clock struck
2086 5| in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "
2087 3| though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that
2088 2| the parlour, and by one stair at a time, up to the top
2089 4| fire together with an old stair-rod, and having trimmed his
2090 1| have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise,
2091 1| pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
2092 3| with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled hand, like
2093 3| get up off the sofa and stamp. At last the plump sister,
2094 1| upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement
2095 1| raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to
2096 4| few boots. Her account was stated on the wall in the same
2097 4| felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him,
2098 2| have become a mere United States' security if there were
2099 4| Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking
2100 2| observant of its dwarfish stature. ~"No. Your past.'' ~Perhaps,
2101 3| Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the
2102 3| they chose. ~But soon the steeples called good people all,
2103 4| it was night), with the stem of his pipe, put it in his
2104 5| afternoon he turned his steps towards his nephew's house. ~
2105 1| Nephew!'' returned the uncle, sternly, "keep Christmas in your
2106 1| sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall. But there
2107 5| would have put a piece of sticking-plaister over it, and been quite
2108 2| couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for
2109 1| nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes
2110 3| health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as
2111 2| fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably
2112 5| opened it, and put out his stirring, cold cold, piping for the
2113 5| Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather,
2114 3| wall of the back-yard, and stolen it, while they were merry
2115 1| A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may
2116 2| it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig,
2117 1| to divert the vision's stony gaze from himself. ~"I do,''
2118 1| bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole
2119 4| catching? Eh?'' said old Joe, stopping in his work, and looking
2120 2| idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking
2121 3| sea-weed clung to its base, and storm-birds -- born of the wind one
2122 4| dealt in, by a charcoal stove, made of old bricks, was
2123 4| dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter
2124 3| Christmas Past. When this strain of music sounded, all the
2125 5| the court for help and a strait-waistcoat. ~"A merry Christmas, Bob!''
2126 1| sensation to which it had been a stranger from infancy, would be untrue.
2127 4| and the other two an't strangers. Stop till I shut the door
2128 3| the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared
2129 2| its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most
2130 3| many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie
2131 4| him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could
2132 3| it!'' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the
2133 4| point of view, that is; strictly in a business point of view. ~"
2134 2| for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city
2135 1| remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly
2136 4| Speakers and listeners strolled away, and mixed with other
2137 4| detained it. The Spirit, stronger yet, repulsed him. ~Holding
2138 1| The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the might Mansion House,
2139 4| felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress. ~He sat down
2140 2| decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables; and the
2141 3| the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur
2142 1| relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted
2143 3| ship might be: struck up a sturdy song that was like a Gale
2144 3| express an opinion on the subject. Whereat Scrooge's niece'
2145 3| Spirit,'' said Scrooge submissively, "conduct me where you will.
2146 3| lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious. Nor was it that
2147 2| they went to bed, and so subsided. ~And now Scrooge looked
2148 2| Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three
2149 1| to say "to a shade,'' but substituted this, as more appropriate. ~"
2150 3| had been before, into the suburbs of the town. It was a remarkable
2151 3| regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs Cratchit
2152 4| merciless a creditor in his successor. We may sleep to-night with
2153 3| brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages,
2154 2| intent upon his reading. Suddenly a man, in foreign garments:
2155 3| with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself,
2156 3| and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on
2157 4| silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a few boots. Her account
2158 4| mine. Ha, ha! We're all suitable to our calling, we're well
2159 1| partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering
2160 3| desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower,
2161 1| solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to
2162 2| don't you see him! And the Sultan's Groom turned upside-down
2163 4| old Joe, who chalked the sums he was disposed to give
2164 3| they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure
2165 2| once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously,
2166 3| Built upon a dismal reef of sunken rocks, some league or so
2167 5| blood to dance to; Golden sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh
2168 3| when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw
2169 2| window, clasped his robe in supplication. ~"I am mortal,'' Scrooge
2170 1| people merry. I help to support the establishments I have
2171 3| crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame! ~"Why,
2172 3| thoughts from Mr Scrooge, supposing they had ever had any tendency
2173 4| Cratchit. ~"You would be surer of it, my dear,'' returned
2174 1| shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments
2175 3| pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little
2176 3| But it had undergone a surprising transformation. The walls
2177 3| said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone
2178 1| well represented by his surviving partner,'' said the gentleman,
2179 1| the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to
2180 1| which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall.
2181 1| Scrooge, "I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest
2182 3| phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course;
2183 3| Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow
2184 5| sunlight; Heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.
2185 3| incredible vigour; Miss Belinda sweetened up the apple-sauce; Martha
2186 3| like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead,
2187 3| the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it.
2188 1| he saw this bell begin to swing. It swung so softly in the
2189 2| despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house
2190 1| himself from falling in a swoon. But how much greater was
2191 3| antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient
2192 1| bell begin to swing. It swung so softly in the outset
2193 1| but stopped at the first syllable. And being, from the emotion
2194 1| dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the
2195 1| should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five
2196 1| and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No
2197 3| Himself, always. Here, he takes it into his head to dislike
2198 1| and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
2199 2| if he had been two inches taller he must have knocked his
2200 2| but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before,
2201 3| plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated
2202 5| Shaving was not an easy task, for his hand continued
2203 4| curtaining of miscellaneous tatters, hung upon a line; and smoked
2204 3| he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts. ~It
2205 1| in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the
2206 4| two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs,
2207 2| impatiently. ~"Your own feeling tells you that you were not what
2208 1| He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he
2209 3| supposing they had ever had any tendency that way. ~"He has given
2210 4| the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's.
2211 2| a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin. The
2212 4| might be my own. My life tends that way, now. Merciful
2213 2| partner in every sense of the term. If that's not high praise,
2214 2| wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were
2215 1| if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley'
2216 4| and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command:
2217 1| eyes; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound
2218 1| the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas. ~
2219 3| and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration.
2220 2| that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing;
2221 1| Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about
2222 1| made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out
2223 | thine
2224 3| by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you
2225 1| phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning
2226 2| they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy
2227 3| shaking Scrooge. But being thoroughly good-natured, and not much
2228 2| curtsey;<PB n="62"> corkscrew; thread-the-needle, and back again to your
2229 4| all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain
2230 3| floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game,
2231 1| resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above, and every
2232 3| ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled,
2233 3| and was so inexpressibly tickled, that he was obliged to
2234 2| trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise,
2235 3| or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or
2236 1| to him. ~Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone,
2237 1| pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights, and boots; the tassels
2238 1| the whole. If each smooth tile had been a blank at first,
2239 1| round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate
2240 3| being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range
2241 3| man!'' ~Scrooge entered timidly, and hung his head before
2242 3| touched them with its freshest tints, a stale and shrivelled
2243 2| laughed again, and stood on tiptoe to embrace him. Then she
2244 3| The children drank the toast after her. It was the first
2245 2| burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies
2246 3| no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range
2247 2| visitation when the bell tolled one. He resolved to lie
2248 1| to-morrow, when the bell tolls One.'' ~"Couldn't I take '
2249 1| an oven. ~"You see this toothpick?'' said Scrooge, returning
2250 3| dwellings, and from the tops of their houses: whence
2251 3| middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in
2252 4| Dilber was next. Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel,
2253 1| on their way. The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff
2254 2| man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then the shouting
2255 3| intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud
2256 3| from whence, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine.
2257 1| Poulterers' and grocers' trades became a splendid joke:
2258 2| and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low
2259 4| To whom will our debt be transferred?'' ~"I don't know. But before
2260 3| had undergone a surprising transformation. The walls and ceiling were
2261 2| Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual
2262 5| He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing
2263 2| consciousness of us.'' ~The jocund travellers came on; and as they came,
2264 3| Spirit were again upon their travels. ~Much they saw, and far
2265 1| hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first to-morrow,
2266 1| say they were not.'' ~"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in
2267 4| improvement, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard,
2268 3| hundred,'' said the Ghost. ~"A tremendous family to provide for!''
2269 3| young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being
2270 1| party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas,
2271 3| up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended
2272 1| implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what
2273 1| the stairs, slowly too: trimming his candle as he went. ~
2274 3| all chattering at once, tripped lightly off to some near
2275 2| itself,'' said Scrooge, triumphantly, "and nothing else!'' ~He
2276 4| conversations apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that
2277 2| shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon
2278 4| by himself.'' ~"It's the truest word that ever was spoke,''
2279 2| rather not. Master Scrooge's trunk being by this time tied
2280 4| shall not leave its lesson, trust me. Let us go!'' ~Still
2281 1| saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways
2282 3| promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at
2283 3| family display of glass; two tumblers, and a custard-cup without
2284 2| and all the strife and tumult of a real city were. It
2285 2| this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children
2286 3| them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought,
2287 2| an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
2288 3| and played among other tunes a simple little air (a mere
2289 2| members, bare. It wore a tunic of the purest white and
2290 4| shook like the gills of a turkey-cock. ~"I haven't heard,'' said
2291 3| bye-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings, innumerable people, carrying
2292 2| Guess!'' ~"How can I? Tut, don't I know.'' she added
2293 3| until they left a children's Twelfth Night party, when, looking
2294 3| luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch,
2295 1| picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!'' said Scrooge,
2296 3| dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons,
2297 3| merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company
2298 1| The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the
2299 3| of age, had pinched, and twisted them, and pulled them into
2300 3| sides, rolling his head, and twisting his face into the most extravagant
2301 3| all, but he didn't care twopence for it. Scrooge was the
2302 3| Master Peter, and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to
2303 4| the body. He can't look uglier than he did in that one.'' ~
2304 4| half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and archways, like
2305 1| cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman
2306 5| wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness! ~
2307 3| vinegar; his example was unanimously followed. ~"I was only going
2308 1| were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily
2309 4| bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this
2310 4| thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind
2311 3| sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first
2312 3| finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder
2313 3| he would have pledged the unconscious company in return, and thanked
2314 3| hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful
2315 4| almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a
2316 1| cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of
2317 1| the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process
2318 3| worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth. ~Built upon a
2319 4| he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. It was a worthy
2320 3| been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have
2321 1| them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard,
2322 4| half-a-crown.'' ~"And now undo my bundle, Joe,'' said the
2323 1| and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. ~The mention of
2324 1| straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the
2325 2| himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as
2326 2| nephew!'' ~Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind; and answered
2327 4| of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged
2328 3| an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr Scrooge. You know
2329 3| said Fred, "and it would be ungrateful not to drink his health.
2330 1| is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb
2331 1| the pen again. ~"And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. "
2332 2| would have become a mere United States' security if there
2333 3| lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were
2334 | unless
2335 | unlikely
2336 4| the Ghost pointed with an unmoved finger to the head. ~"I
2337 3| rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping
2338 2| recollection of it, gladly, as an unprofitable dream, from which it happened
2339 4| and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted
2340 4| reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him
2341 1| stranger from infancy, would be untrue. But he put his hand upon
2342 2| Scrooge muttered, with an unusual catching in his voice, that
2343 4| it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was
2344 4| plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body
2345 2| heart, "and you shall be upheld in more than this!'' ~As
2346 2| forty. The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one
2347 5| inside out, putting them on upside down, tearing them, mislaying
2348 2| the Sultan's Groom turned upside-down by the Genii; there he is
2349 3| of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching
2350 1| occurred to stop them in their useful course,'' said Scrooge. "
2351 1| short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space
2352 1| clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the
2353 4| stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a
2354 2| down the lamps as he gave utterance to the wish; and Scrooge
2355 3| Tim will live.'' ~"I see a vacant seat,'' replied the Ghost, "
2356 4| It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know
2357 1| as he went. ~You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six
2358 2| like that. Poor boy! And Valentine,'' said Scrooge, "and his
2359 1| still agitated as by the hot vapour from an oven. ~"You see
2360 2| again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping;
2361 4| and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked
2362 4| more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre
2363 3| it only puts him in the vein to leave his poor clerk
2364 3| and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get
2365 1| round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and
2366 1| together by the bandage. He ventured to raise his eyes again,
2367 3| range of subjects. Without venturing for Scrooge quite as hardily
2368 2| and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering
2369 2| entirely vanished. Not a vestige of it was to be seen. The
2370 3| his guess quite loud, and vey often guessed quite right,
2371 1| the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth
2372 3| chain about her neck; was vile, monstrous. No doubt she
2373 3| hard to do it with aromatic vinegar; his example was unanimously
2374 3| appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling. Five minutes,
2375 5| call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the
2376 1| a second, to divert the vision's stony gaze from himself. ~"
2377 4| no order in these latter visions, save that they were in
2378 2| Ghost had warned him of a visitation when the bell tolled one.
2379 1| PB n="35">~"Without their visits,'' said the Ghost, "you
2380 4| Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?'' ~"I don't mind going
2381 1| up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they
2382 1| ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work.'' ~The clerk
2383 1| his heart, by any means waggish then. The truth is, that
2384 3| heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and
2385 1| lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful
2386 3| chesnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen,
2387 5| man. As he stood there, waiting his arrival, the knocker
2388 3| And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad,
2389 5| Scrooge. "Go and buy it.'' ~"Walk-<EMPH rend="sc">er!'' exclaimed
2390 3| their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant
2391 4| It was a worthy place. Walled in by houses; overrun by
2392 1| after death. It is doomed to wander through the world -- oh,
2393 4| Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious
2394 3| winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as
2395 1| silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified
2396 3| as if disdaining to be warded or concealed by any artifice.
2397 1| years afterwards, above the ware-house door: Scrooge and Marley.
2398 4| bones. Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal
2399 1| who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned
2400 1| and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking
2401 2| sudden, that the Ghost had warned him of a visitation when
2402 3| needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the eye, was
2403 3| and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the
2404 3| the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell
2405 1| shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three legs, and a poker. ~
2406 3| the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas
2407 4| fine one too. They'd have wasted it, if it hadn't been for
2408 4| me.'' ~"What do you call wasting of it?'' asked old Joe. ~"
2409 3| the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in
2410 4| groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully
2411 1| the blaze in rapture. The water-plug being left in solitude,
2412 3| shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty;
2413 2| drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind,
2414 2| 59"> floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed,
2415 3| from shore, on which the waters chafed and dashed, the wild
2416 2| smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand: saying as it did
2417 2| globes in the windows, were waxy with cold. Here he produced
2418 4| and its bad repute. The ways were foul and narrow; the
2419 4| too much to ladies. It's a weakness of mine, and that's the
2420 4| were men of business: very wealthy, and of great importance.
2421 1| instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have
2422 4| Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned
2423 1| money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!'' ~
2424 2| red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and
2425 4| houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation'
2426 3| full five-and-sixpence weekly. The two young Cratchits
2427 2| very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or,
2428 4| hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all
2429 2| of an old gentleman in a Welch wig, sitting behind such
2430 3| was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead
2431 2| left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached
2432 2| sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten
2433 3| rank grass. Down in the west the setting sun had left
2434 3| beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow,
2435 1| in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their
2436 3| opinion on the subject. Whereat Scrooge's niece's sister --
2437 1| necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white
2438 | wherein
2439 3| and water spread itself wheresoever it listed; or would have
2440 | wherever
2441 3| Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself, always. Here,
2442 3| nothing: you might learn to whistle it in two minutes), which
2443 3| the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in
2444 3| and so did Scrooge; for, wholly forgetting in the interest
2445 4| nothing doubting that to whomsoever they applied they had some
2446 3| the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left
2447 1| easy. There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare;
2448 2| old gentleman in a Welch wig, sitting behind such a high
2449 3| crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases
2450 2| any knowledge of having wilfully <SOCALLED>bonnetedSOCALLED>
2451 2| fellow-'prentice. ~"Dick Wilkins, to be sure!'' said Scrooge
2452 2| schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and getting into it, drove
2453 2| you seek me out and try to win me now? Ah, no!'' ~He seemed
2454 5| standing there: perfectly winded. ~"There's the saucepan
2455 2| bridge, its church, and winding river. Some shaggy ponies
2456 3| again, were shadows on the window-blind of guests assembling; and
2457 4| him for a moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed
2458 1| said Scrooge. ~"On the wings of the wind,'' replied the
2459 2| deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came
2460 1| idea. Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his
2461 1| on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own
2462 1| ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the
2463 2| Heaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolution in his power. ~
2464 1| reason just assigned; and wishing, though it were only for
2465 3| saw them enter -- artful witches, well they knew it -- in
2466 1| bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people
2467 4| but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss
2468 4| moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight,
2469 1| their point, the gentlemen withdrew. Scrooge resumed his labours
2470 1| oh, woe is me! -- and witness what it cannot share, but
2471 3| alone -- too nervous to bear witnesses -- to take the pudding up,
2472 2| acted like a man out of his wits. His heart and soul were
2473 3| hung his head to hear his wn words quoted by the Spirit,
2474 3| meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in
2475 5| games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness! ~But he was early
2476 2| man, in foreign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look
2477 4| joined it once again, and wondering why and whither he had gone,
2478 2| leading an ass laden with wood by the bridle. ~"Why, it'
2479 2| fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief
2480 3| ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings
2481 3| missile far than many a wordy jest -- laughing heartily
2482 2| icicle must have got into the works. Twelve! ~He touched the
2483 3| all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire
2484 2| that made my love of any worth or value in your sight.
2485 3| of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than
2486 3| other covering than a holly wreath, set here and there with
2487 3| meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies,
2488 1| grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,
2489 2| faces it had shown him, wrestled with it. ~"Leave me! Take
2490 1| Business!'' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind
2491 5| was not a steady one, but write it he did, somehow, and
2492 3| for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the
2493 5| The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady
2494 1| deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. His body was transparent;
2495 1| and shook its chain, and wrung its shadowy hands. ~"You
2496 4| said the first, with a yawn. ~"What has he done with
2497 4| man with the large chin, yawning again. "Left it to his Company,
2498 3| so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the
2499 3| had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular,
2500 3| humility. Where graceful youth should have filled their
2501 3| bonnet for her with officious zeal. ~"We'd a deal of work to
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