Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

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Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

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This ebook is the product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard Ebooks, and
builds…

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Preface
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall n…

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AChristmas Carol

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Stave I
Marley’s Ghost
Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The…

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their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them. The City clocks had only just gone three, but it
…

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“Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”
Scrooge said that he would see him—Yes, inde…

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answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I
he…

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a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for…

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as usual. Old fire-guard, old shoes, two fish baskets, washing stand on three legs, and a poker.
Q…

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the necessity of an embarrassing explanation. But the Ghost sat down on the opposite side of the
f…

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It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to put his hands in his breeches
pocke…

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confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.
The apparition …

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Stave II
The First of the Three Spirits
When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of b…

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white, as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the…

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appeared still present to the old man’s sense of feeling. He was conscious of a thousand odours
fl…

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“There’s the Parrot!” cried Scrooge. “Green body and yellow tail, with a thing like a lettuce
grow…

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Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind, and answered briefly, “Yes.”
Although they had but that moment …

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after the roast and boiled, when the fiddler (an artful dog, mind! The sort of man who knew his
bu…

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“This is the evenhanded dealing of the world!” he said. “There is nothing on which it is so hard as…

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young brood, I couldn’t have done it; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a
p…

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Stave III
The Second of the Three Spirits
Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, an…

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of the garment, were also bare; and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath, set
…

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those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a
merry …

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And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it
w…

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they soon returned in high procession.
Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose th…

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“will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus…

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But, if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might
h…

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If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blessed in a laugh than
Scrooge’s…

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bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over …

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reply to “Is it a bear?” ought to have been “Yes;” inasmuch as an answer in the negative was
suffi…

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there no workhouses?”
The bell struck twelve.
Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost, and saw it …

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Stave IV
The Last of the Spirits
The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came n…

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nose. “But I must be fed if I make one.”
Another laugh.
“Well, I am the most disinterested among …

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came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the
…

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“Yes, I do,” replied the woman. “Why not?”
“You were born to make your fortune,” said Joe, “and yo…

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“I understand you,” Scrooge returned, “and I would do it if I could. But I have not the power,
Spi…

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time.”
“Past it rather,” Peter answered, shutting up his book. “But I think he has walked a little…

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“And I know,” said Bob, “I know, my dears, that when we recollect how patient and how mild he
was;…

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that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!”
In his agony he caught …

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Stave V
The End of It
Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own…

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“Is it?” said Scrooge. “Go and buy it.”
“Walk-er!” exclaimed the boy.
“No, no,” said Scrooge. “I …

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turned his steps towards his nephew’s house.
He passed the door a dozen times before he had the co…

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afterwards; and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man
aliv…

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A Christmas Carol
was published in 1843 by
CHARLES DICKENS.
This ebook was produced for
STANDAR…

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May you do good and not evil.
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive other…

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Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

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A Christmas Classic. From the Standards Ebooks project.

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