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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ts waist was bounda lustrous belt, the sheen of which was beauti-ful. It held a branch of fresh green holly inits hand ; and, in singular contradiction ofthat wintry emblem, had its dress trimmedwith summer flowers. But the strangestthing about it was, that from the crownof its head there sprang a bright clear jet oflight, by which all this was visible ; andwhich was doubtless the occasion of itsusing, in its duller moments, a great ex-tinguisher for a cap, which it now held underits arm. Even this, though, when Scrooge looked atit with increasing steadiness, was 7iot itsstrangest quality. For as its belt sparkledand glittered now in one part and now inanother, and what was light one instant, atanother time was dark, so the figure itselffluctuated in its distinctness : being now athing with one arm, now with one leg, nowwith twenty legs, now a pair of legs withouta head, now a head without a body : ofwhich dissolving parts, no outline would bevisible in the dense gloom wherein they 41
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H Cbrtstmas Carol melted away. And in the very wonder ofthis, it would be itself again ; distinct andclear as ever. Are you the Spirit, Sir, whose comingwas foretold to me ? asked Scrooge.lam ! The voice was soft and gentle. Singu-larly low, as if instead of being so close besidehim, it were at a distance. Who, and what are you.? Scroogedemanded. I am the Ghost of Christmas Past. Long past.? inquired Scrooge : observ-ant of its dwarfish stature. No. Your past. Perhaps, Scrooge could not have told any-body why, if anybody could have asked him ;but he had a special desire to see the Spirit inhis cap ; and begged him to be covered. What! exclaimed the Ghost, wouldyou so soon put out, with worldly hands, thelight 1 give ? Is it not enough that you areone of those whose passions made this cap,and force me through whole trains of years towear it low upon my brow ! Scrooge reverently disclaimed all intentionto offend, or any knowledge of having 42 H Cbrtstmas Carol wilfully bonneted the Spir

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