Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the Literatures of France, England and America, Volume 2William Patten P.F. Collier & Son, 1906 |
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Achanna answered asked auld Baron Blackwater Bob Cratchit called candle castle CHARLES DICKENS Christmas Clarimonde Clayborough Coverack Cratchit cried dark dead death Dominicus door dream Dwerrihouse ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN eyes face father fear fell felt Fezziwig fire frae Ghost glance Gloom gudesire hand head heard heart Higginbotham Ian Macarthur Isaac Jacob Marley Jelf Katreen Kimballton Kitty knew LA MORTE AMOREUSE laughed light living lock looked merry mind morning murder never night passed poor Redgauntlet replied rickshaw round Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed seen Sérapion shadow Sheumais side SIGNAL-MAN Simla Sir John sleep Soulis spectre Spirit Spreckdal Steenie stood story strange tell thee thing thou thought Tiny Tim told took trumpeter turned Uncle Scrooge voice walked watch weel Wessington whispered wind window woman word young
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Page 248 - Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names.
Page 292 - Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass— two tumblers and a custard-cup without a handle. These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily. Then Bob proposed: "A merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!
Page 250 - ... em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas...
Page 250 - What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and 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 247 - Marley was as dead as a door-naiL Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years.
Page 250 - ... that — as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their...
Page 320 - Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. The father of a long, long line of brilliant laughs! 'I don't know what day of the month it is,
Page 248 - No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the...
Page 102 - I had urged him to destroy, and that his impressions of dread while there were so great, though he had neither heard nor seen anything, that he was eager to have the walls bared and the floors removed as I had suggested. He had engaged persons for the work, and would commence any day I would name. The day was accordingly fixed. I repaired to the haunted house — we went into the blind dreary room, took up the skirting, and then the floors. Under the rafters, covered with rubbish, was found a trap-door,...
Page 291 - Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last! Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda, Mrs. Cratchit left the room alone — too nervous to bear witness — to take the pudding up and bring it in.