A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the HearthHoughton Mifflin, 1907 - 128 páginas A Christmas carol: Pengeudlåneren Scrooge er en begærlig, nærig og ondskabsfuld gammel mand. Julenat møder han 3 ånder, som forskrækker ham og får ham til at ændre sig. The cricket on the hearth: Både rig og fattig i 1800-tallets London har en fårekylling ved arnen som hjemmets skytsånd. Også den fattige legetøjshandler, som forsøger at skabe en illusion af velstand og lykke for en blind pige |
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Ali Baba an't asked Scrooge Baby believe Bertha better bless Blind Girl Bob Cratchit Boxer Caleb Camden Town chair cheerful child Chirp CHRISTMAS CAROL clock cold Cricket cried Scrooge dance dark daughter dear door Ebenezer Scrooge exclaimed eyes face father Fezziwig fire Ghost of Christmas Gruff and Tackleton hand happy head hear heard heart honour hope Jacob Marley John Peerybingle kettle kind knew last night laughed light live looked Marley Marley's Marley's Ghost marriage merry Christmas mind Miss Slowboy mother never observed Phantom poor pretty replied returned the Carrier Robin Crusoe round Scrooge's nephew shadow sitting Spirit stood sure tell There's thing thought Tilly Slowboy Tiny Tiny Tim told took toy merchant turned uncle Uncle Scrooge voice walked wife window woman wonder word young Cratchits
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Página 20 - But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning I' "The clerk promised that he would ; and Scrooge walked out with a growl.
Página 91 - Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,' said Scrooge, 'answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?
Página 70 - But they didn't devote the whole evening to music. 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.
Página 55 - ... were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy, brownfaced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars; and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hungup mistletoe. There were pears and apples,...
Página 62 - ... of chestnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one ; and at Bob 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 cracked noisily. Then Bob proposed : — " A Merry Christmas to us all,...
Página 58 - ... 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 collars nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the slow potatoes, bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan lid to be let out and peeled. " What has ever got your precious father, then ?
Página 58 - Bob" a week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house! Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit, Cratchit's wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes,...
Página 15 - What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older...
Página 15 - I time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Página 31 - ... ever. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home. Scrooge closed the window, and examined the door by which the Ghost had entered. It was double locked, as he had locked it with his own hands, and the bolts were undisturbed. He tried to say 'Humbug!