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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H Cbristmas Carol were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a loweringpile of building up a yard, where it had so little business tobe, that one couldscarcely helpfancying it musthave run therewhen it was ayoung house,playing at hide-and-seek withother houses, andhave forgotten theway out again. ItVvas old enoughnow, and drearyenough, for no-body lived in itbut Scrooge, theother rooms beingall let out as offi-ces. The yard wasso dark that evenScrooge, whoknew its every stone, was fain to grope withhis hands. The fog and frost so hung aboutthe black old gateway of the house, that it
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^Scrooge took his melancholy dinnerin his usual melancholy tavern^ i8 H Cbrtstmas Carol seemed as if the Genius of the Weather satin mournful meditation on the threshold. Now, it is a fact, that there was nothingat all particular about the knocker on thedoor except that it was very large. It is also afact, that Scrooge had seen it, night and morn-ing, during his whole residence in that place ;also that Scrooge had as little of what is calledfancy about him as any man in the City ofLondon, even including—which is a boldword — the corporation, aldermen, and livery.Let it also be borne in mind that Scrooge hadnot bestowed one thought on Marley, sincehis last mention of his seven-years dead part-ner that afternoon. And then let any manexplain to me, if he can, how it happenedthat Scrooge, having his key in the lock ofthe door, saw in the knocker, without itsundergoing any intermediate process ofchange : not a knocker, but Marleys face. Marleys face. It was not in impenetrableshadow as

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