Identifier: christmascarol00dick2 (find matches)
Title: A Christmas carol
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Coburn, Frederick Simpson
Subjects: Christmas stories Misers
Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd manya day. 33 H Cbristmas Carol It was not an agreeable idea. Scrooge shiv-ered, and wiped tlie perspiration from his brow. That is no light part of my penance,pursued the Ghost. I am here to-night towarn you, that you have yet a chance andhope of escaping my fate. A chance and hopeof my procuring, Ebenezer. You were always a good friend to me,said Scrooge. Thankee ! You will be haunted, resumed the Ghost,by Three Spirits. Scrooges countenance fell almost as low ashe Ghosts had done. Is that the chance and hope you men-tioned, Jacob.? he demanded, in a falteringvoice. It is. . -^. I — I think I d rather not, said Scrooge. Without their visits, said the Ghost, youcannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expectthe first to-morrow, when the bell tolls one. Could nt I take em all at once, and haveit over, Jacob ? hinted Scrooge. Expect the second on the next night atthe same hour. The third upon the nextnight when the last stroke of twelve hasceased to vibrate. Look to see me no more 33
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H Cbristmas Carol and look that, for your own sake, you re-member what has passed between us !When it had said these words, the spectretook its wrapper from the table, and boundit round its head, as before. Scrooge knewthis, by the smart sound its teeth made, whenthe jaws were brought together by the band-age. He ventured to raise his eyes again, andfound his supernatural visitor confronting himin an erect attitude, with its chain wound overand about its arm. The apparition walked backward from him ;and at every step it took, the window raiseditself a little, so that when the spectre reachedit, it was wide open. It beckoned Scrooge toapproach, which he did. When they werewithin two paces of each other, MarleysGhost held up its hand, warning him to comeno nearer. Scrooge stopped. Not so much in obedience, as in surpriseand fear: for on the raising of the hand, hebecame sensible of confused noises in the air;incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret ;wailings inexpressibly sorrowful a

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