A Christmas Carol, and The ChimesCassell, Limited, 1886 - 192 páginas |
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Alderman Cute an't arms asked Scrooge BEECHAM'S PILLS Bells better bless Bob Cratchit chair cheerful Chickenstalker child Chimes CHRISTMAS CAROL cold cried Scrooge cried Trotty dark dead dear dinner door dreadful Ebenezer Scrooge exclaimed eyes face Fern Filer fire Fish Friend and Father gentleman Ghost of Christmas girl hand happy head hear heard heart hope HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS Jacob Marley knees knew lady laughed light Lilian listened live looked Marley Marley's married Meg's Merry Christmas mind never night Phantom poor replied returned Richard Robin Crusoe Scrooge's nephew shadows Sir Joseph Bowley smile Spirit stood stopped street sure tell There's thing thought Tiny Tiny Tim Toby Veck Toby's trembling tripe trot Trotty's Tugby turned Uncle Uncle Scrooge voice walked window woman wonder words Year's Day young Cratchits
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Página 51 - and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
Página 14 - ... 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,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas...
Página 14 - ... 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 shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellowtravellers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Página 53 - Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. Mrs. Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat heresy to do so. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing.
Página 52 - Miss Belinda sweetened up the applesauce ; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons...
Página 16 - ... fund to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?' 'Nothing!' Scrooge replied. 'You wish to be anonymous?' 'I wish to be left alone,
Página 51 - Martha didn't like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper. "And how did little Tim behave?" asked Mrs. Crachit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart's content. "As good as gold,
Página 66 - I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?
Página 52 - Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
Página 77 - 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 the things that May be only?