posted on: October 19, 2020
More Books | He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did. Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, but he answered to both names. Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expectation of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing. scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! “A merry Christmas, uncle! But before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. They often “came down” handsomely, and Scrooge never did. “But I suppose you must have the whole day. What right have you to be merry? “You don’t mean that, I am sure?”, “I do,” said Scrooge. snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage Of course he did. In chapter 1 of his novella A Christmas Carol, “Marley’s Ghost,” a greedy old miser by the name of Ebenezer Scrooge is visited in the night by an old friend, who warns him to change his ways before it is too late. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!”. If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley’s head on every one. “Christmas a humbug, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. Lumber-room as usual. You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. was dead. When it had said these words, the spectre took its wrapper from the table, and bound it round its head, as before. “At this time of the rolling year,” the spectre said, “I suffer most. The book is always a perfect gift for anyone during the Christmas Season and with it’s many different versions now available. “You see this toothpick?” said Scrooge, returning quickly to the charge, for the reason just assigned; and wishing, though it were only for a second, to divert the vision’s stony gaze from himself. “What right have you to be dismal? It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. He did pause, with a moment’s irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley’s pigtail sticking out into the hall. Do the pupils agree with Scrooge’s argument for not helping those less fortunate at Christmas time? Of course he did. The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open. Two gentlemen enter raising money for homeless people at Christmas time and enquire what they can put Scrooge 'down for'? Yet such was I! It is a ponderous chain!”. sole mourner. Scrooge could not feel it himself, but this was clearly the case; for though the Ghost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, and skirts, and tassels, were still agitated as by the hot vapour from an oven. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. May nothing you dismay!”. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Marley in his pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pigtail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America, British Literature: The English Renaissance, British Literature: The Extended 18th Century. Children and Adults have enjoyed this tale for centuries. The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of, “God bless you, merry gentleman! Scrooge tries to persuade himself it is all 'humbug' - until an apparition walks through the door. Of course he did. generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot—say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance—literally to astonish his son’s weak mind. The same face: the very same. “He died seven years ago, this very night.”. The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever. As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon, it was a knocker again. He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge’s, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. Beginning of dialog window. Free, Online. stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. Poulterers’ and grocers’ trades became a splendid joke: a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do.
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