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 CbriBtmas Carol He recoiled in terror, for the scene hadchanged, and now he almost touched a bed :a bare, uncurtained bed : on which, beneatha ragged sheet, there lay a something coveredup, which, though it was dumb, announceditself in awful language. The room was very dark, too dark to be ob-served with any accuracy, though Scroogeglanced round it in obedience to a secret im-pulse, anxious to know what kind of room itwas. A pale light, rising in the outer air, fellstraight upon the bed ; and on it, plunderedand bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for,was the body of this man. Scrooge glanced towards the Phantom. Itssteady hand was pointed to the head. Thecover was so carelessly adjusted that the slight-est raising of it, the motion of a finger uponScrooges part, would have disclosed the face.He thought of it, felt how easy it would be todo, and longed to do it ; but had no morepower to withdraw the veil than to dismissthe spectre at his side. O cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set

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