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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like feather-beds, Abrahams,Belshazzars, Apostles putting off to sea inbutter-boats, hundreds of figures, to attracthis thoughts ; and yet that face of Marley,seven years dead, came like the ancientProphets rod, and swallowed up the whole.If each smooth tile had been a blank at first,with power to shape some picture on its sur-face from the disjointed fragments of histhoughts, there would have been a copy of oldMarleys head on every one. Humbug! said Scrooge; and walkedacross the room. After several turns, he sat down again. Ashe threw his head back in the chair, hisglance happened to rest upon a bell, a disusedbell, that hung in the room, and communicatedfor some purpose now forgotten with a cham-ber in the highest story of the building. Itwas with great astonishment, and with astrange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked,he saw this bell begin to swing. It swung sosoftly in the outset that it scarcely made asound ; but soon it rang out loudly, and sodid every bell in the house. 23
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H Cbrtstmas Carol This might have lasted half a minute, or aminute, but it seemed an hour. The bellsceased as they had begun, together. Theywere succeeded by a clanking noise, deepdown below ; as if some person were drag-ging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchants cellar. Scrooge then rememberedto have heard that ghosts in haunted houseswere described as dragging chains. The cellar-door flew open with a boomingsound, and then he heard the noise muchlouder, on the floors below ; then coming upthe stairs ; then coming straight towards hisdoor. *Mt s humbug still ! said Scrooge. *Mwont believe it. His colour changed though, when, withouta pause, it came on through the heavy door,and passed into the room before his eyes.Upon its coming in, the dying flame leapedup, as though it cried 1 know him ! MarleysGhost ! and fell again. The same face : the very same. Marley inhis pigtail, usual waistcoat, tights, and boots ;the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pig-tail, and his

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