Little Classics, Volume 5Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - Literature |
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... observed the Spirit . " Quick ! " This was not addressed to Scrooge , or to any one whom he could see , but it produced an immediate effect . For again he saw himself . He was older now ; a man in the prime of life . He was not alone ...
... observed the Spirit . " Quick ! " This was not addressed to Scrooge , or to any one whom he could see , but it produced an immediate effect . For again he saw himself . He was older now ; a man in the prime of life . He was not alone ...
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... observed , God bless us , every one ! NOTE . The shorter version of the CHRISTMAS CAROL , condensed by Dickens himself for his public readings , has been chosen for use hera . both because this collection is partly intended for social ...
... observed , God bless us , every one ! NOTE . The shorter version of the CHRISTMAS CAROL , condensed by Dickens himself for his public readings , has been chosen for use hera . both because this collection is partly intended for social ...
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... observed that Ho - ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever . Nothing but fires from this time forward . Some would break out in broad day , others in the night - time . As often as the sow farrowed , so sure was the ...
... observed that Ho - ti's cottage was burnt down now more frequently than ever . Nothing but fires from this time forward . Some would break out in broad day , others in the night - time . As often as the sow farrowed , so sure was the ...
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... observed to be on fire . The thing took wing , and now there was nothing to be seen but fire in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The insurance offices one and all shut up shop . People built ...
... observed to be on fire . The thing took wing , and now there was nothing to be seen but fire in every direction . Fuel and pigs grew enormously dear all over the district . The insurance offices one and all shut up shop . People built ...
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... observations as , " See that ! " 66 Murther , murther ! " Well , well , there's nothing can surpass the art o ' man ! " ذر In this complacency he found his account . An attentive or patient pair of ears was an article which his master ...
... observations as , " See that ! " 66 Murther , murther ! " Well , well , there's nothing can surpass the art o ' man ! " ذر In this complacency he found his account . An attentive or patient pair of ears was an article which his master ...
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asked began bless Bo-bo Bob Cratchit boots called candle Christmas day Christmas eve cried crust Dan Harroway dark dear door exclaimed eyes face father fellow felt fire Gadshill-in-the-Fields Geoffrey Gunn Ghost girl hand happy Harroway head hear heard heart Inmate Jacob Marley Jerry Rouse Jerry's Kenmare knees knew Lafarge laughed live looked Marley marriage master Mercy merry Christmas mind misery Miss Moriarty morning Nance Nash Navity Neal Malone Neal's never night O'Connor passed Pickersgill plase your honor poor round towers schoolmaster Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed shake singin Smilish Spirit stairs stood story sure sure as fate tailor tell there's thing thought Tibbot O'Leary Tiny Tiny Tim told Tom Nash took total depravity turned Uncle Scrooge Varuna walked wife woman word young Cratchits
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Page 7 - MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Page 91 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — lt Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Page 35 - There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbrokers.
Page 9 - ... not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will...
Page 33 - I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.
Page 32 - A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
Page 32 - Oh, a wonderful pudding ! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage.
Page 87 - You graceless whelp, what have you got there devouring ? Is it not enough that you have burnt me down three houses with your dog's tricks, and be hanged to you ! but you must be eating fire, and I know not what ? What have you got there, I say F " " O father, the pig, the pig ! do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats.
Page 28 - And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own ; and, basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies', while he (not proud, although his...
Page 37 - After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.