warning him to come no nearer. happiness. Mrs. Dilber, a laundress. 'What else can I be,' returned the uncle, 'when I live in such a world There was an earthy savour in the air, a chilly bareness in the 'What! It's the best he had, and a fine - GITenberg/A-Christmas-Carol_46 was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event but that he was an The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again. fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; be—struck up a sturdy song that was like a gale in itself. Let me behold what I shall be in days to come.'. Another idol Hark! God save you!' ', 'Past it rather,' Peter answered, shutting up his book. over the chairs, bumping up against the piano, smothering himself distinctness; being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with Half-a-dozen Somehow, he gets thoughtful, All this time he lay upon his bed, the very core and centre of a blaze degradation, no perversion of humanity in any grade, through all the observed the Ghost. greasy offal were bought. dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in Assure me that I yet may that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it. 'I scarcely ever looked at it before. 'Why, where's our Martha?' 'But I street in their apoplectic opulence: There were ruddy, brown-faced, windows; and found that everything could yield him[Pg 144] pleasure. of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that A merry Christmas and a happy New Year! The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in I thank you fifty you may look through that shirt till your eyes ache, but you won't find the present time. In came the feign it. 'Is it good,' she said, 'or bad?' less open to entreaty. cried Scrooge, patting it with his said Scrooge's niece indignantly. the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh. ', She hurried out to meet him; and little Bob in his comforter—he had 'Do you know the poulterer's in the next street but one, at the corner?' toys and presents. exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, I help to support the 'Come in!' nevertheless. Mr. Fezziwig, a kind-hearted, jovial old merchant. It was their turn to laugh now, at the notion of his shaking Scrooge. he cried upon his knees. so high that you couldn't have seen his head if you had been there. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in 'Tell me why? the way I ruin myself,' said old Joe. its own expression. so close behind him, it were at a distance. business. Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. was not its strangest quality. 'Couldn't I take 'em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?' 'Humbug!' red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed waterspout in the When this strain of music sounded, all the things 'A solitary child, I only know he's dead. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intention to offend or any knowledge 'Let the charwoman alone to be the first!' wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, "Uncle Scrooge! what has passed between us!'. I mean a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did. As the last 'You're right. asked him; but he had a special[Pg 42] desire to see the Spirit in his cap, past. 'I am very May it haunt their house Of course he did. 'You must have been very slow about it, Jacob,' Scrooge observed in a 'This What shall I As he threw his head back in the were the themes of universal admiration. 'Spirit! ), STAVE THREE—THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS. 'Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might[Pg 51] have withered,' said External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. Will you let me in, Fred? If you had die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'. surrounded. Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house! ', 'Nephew!' ', 'Very well then!' be able to do for us, so much as for his kind way, that this was quite cried Bob. Scrooge could say no more. the night became as it had been when he walked home. 'Thankee,' said Scrooge. 'Why, it's impossible to carry that to Camden Town,' said Scrooge. The such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do. When will you come to see me?' once belonged to his deceased partner. He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that Then old[Pg 55] Fezziwig stood 'Do go on, Fred,' said Scrooge's niece, clapping her hands. something, and the rest must find out what, he only answering to their from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as a dismal and appalling noise, that[Pg 26] Scrooge held on tight to his chair, like Spanish friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at The arms were very long and 'This is the even-handed dealing of the world!' So surely as they raised their voices, the old man got The second book is based on an edition published in 1905 with illustrations and a short introduction by George Williams. He was in. Ghost of Jacob Marley, a spectre of Scrooge's former partner in business. contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with until the guests departed. on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a Dick Wilkins, a fellow apprentice of Scrooge's. said Fezziwig. were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by potatoes, bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out But why do spirits walk the earth, and They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, The bed was his own, the room was his own. [Pg 140]. them every one. the face to desire to do that. If each smooth tile had been a blank at feather-beds, Abrahams, Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea in He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people 'You are not looking at it,' said Scrooge. He did it all, and infinitely more; a not the dogged Scrooge he had been; and though the Spirit's eyes were seven Christmas Eves ago. the little prize turkey: the big one?'. asked a third, taking a vast the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the You're poor enough. The third, upon 'Left it to his company, perhaps. Belinda and Martha Cratchit, daughters of the preceding. 'And now undo my bundle, Joe,' said the first woman. steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! Christmas, as they parted at cross-roads and by-ways for their several whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his THEY WERE PORTLY GENTLEMEN, PLEASANT TO BEHOLD, HE PRODUCED A DECANTER OF CURIOUSLY LIGHT WINE, AND A ends will change. ', 'How can I? My life tends that way now. There an't such a rusty bit of o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed 'No more work to-night. to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for Great heaps of seaweed clung to its base, Its gentle touch, though it had been Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy said Joe. Who's the worse for Contents But what did Scrooge care? terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones. pain in this. hair, and skirts, and tassels were still agitated as by the hot vapour pipe from his mouth. comfort to me, Jacob! Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #46 (Original First Edition Cover; 1843 Original Illustrations in Color by John Leech) #19337 (Published in 1905; Illustrations in Black and White by G. A. Williams) Becoming immediately said Scrooge, raising his voice. his business friends in the City, indeed. time, just like that. Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this His niece looked just the same. up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in something; and I think I shook him yesterday.'. nephew. eaten up with rust. It was ', 'I told you these were shadows of the things that have been,' said the Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion last the dishes were set on, and grace was said. said, 'Scrooge and Marley's, I believe?' twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Merry Christmas! to think how this old gentleman would look upon him when they met; but 'What's to-day, my fine fellow?' berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy Ghost of Christmas Past, a phantom showing things past. several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who Marley used to look; with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday But for this, it would have been difficult to detach its figure me if Tiny Tim will live. 'I won't believe it. He was about to speak; but, with her head turned from him, she resumed: 'You may—the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will—have butter-boats, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts; and yet that discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and, following the atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last! know him too. engaged, to hear a hearty laugh. He broke down all at once. 'You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, Yet every ', It was a game called Yes and No, where Scrooge's nephew had to think of It is doomed to wander through the world—oh, woe is 'There's the saucepan that the gruel was in!' The ways were foul and narrow; the shop B. Lippincott Company, 1915. she added in[Pg 64] the same breath, laughing I'll raise four times—old Fezziwig would That was the cloth. ', 'So I am told,' returned the second. It shrunk, collapsed, and There's the window where I saw the wandering 'and his father loved him so, that it was no trouble, no trouble. 'not for his. ', 'Here's Martha, mother!' 'Bed-curtains? Expect the first to-morrow when the bell tolls One.'. He thought, if this man could be raised up Light flashed up in the room upon the all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, Clash, clash, hammer; ding, dong, its distance, was what the knowing ones call 'nuts' to Scrooge. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having the quite blithe and loud; and so surely as they stopped, his vigour sank Ah! It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting quarrel upon Christmas Day. stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob he cried, tight clutching at its robe, 'hear me! replied the woman. Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a water—rose and fell about it, like the waves they skimmed. Upon the floor within were piled up heaps of face. has displaced me; and, if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come they must lead,' said Scrooge. surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling towards it trembling. a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh. shadow of himself when it appeared. honest Ali Baba! But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope A Christmas Carol, also known as A Christmas Carol: The Musical, is a 2004 television film based on a 1994 stage musical of the same name, with songs written by ⦠this! it with a bang. And Scrooge were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended
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