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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d had it everdone to him ? The school is not quite deserted, saidthe Ghost. A solitary child, neglected byhis friends, is left there still. Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed. They left the high-road, by a well-remem-bered lane, and soon approached a mansionof dull red brick, with a little weathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell 46 a Cbrtstmas Carol hanging in it. It was a large house, but oneof broken fortunes ; for the spacious officeswere little used, their walls were damp andmossy, theirwindowsbroken, andtheir gates de-cayed. Fowlsclucked andstrutted in thestables ; andthe coach-housesandsheds wereoverrun withgrass. Nor wasit more reten-tive of its an-cient state,within; forentering the dreary hall, and glancing throughthe open doors of many rooms, they foundthem poorly furnished, cold, and vast. Therewas an earthy savour in the air, a chillybareness in the place, which associated itselfsomehow with too much getting up bycandle-light, and not too much to eat. 47
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