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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ay to thewindow. He was obliged to rub the frost offwith the sleeve of his dressing-gown beforehe could see anything ; and could see verylittle then. All he could make out was, thatit was still very foggy and extremely cold, andthat there was no noise of people running toand fro, and making a great stir, as there un-questionably would have been if night hadbeaten off bright day, and taken possession ofthe world. This was a great relief, because three days after sight of this First of Ex-change pay to Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge or his#^//^-^5^v^ order, and so forth, would have become ^%pM\r\- ^ mere United States security if there i.Itiyiff^J ^ were no days to count by. Scrooge went to bed again, and thought,and thought, and thought it over and overand over, and could make nothing of it. Themore he thought, the more perplexed hewas ; and the more he endeavoured not tothink, the more he thought. Marleys Ghostbothered him exceedingly. Every time heresolved within himself, after mature inquiry,
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38 B Cbrtstmas Carol that it was all a dream, his mind flew backagain, like a strong spring released, to itsfirst position, and presented the sameproblem to be worked all through, *Was it adream or not ? Scrooge lay in this state until the chimeshad gone three quarters more, when he re-membered, on a sudden, that the Ghost hadwarned him of a visitation when the belltolled one. He resolved to lie awake untilthe hour was passed ; and, considering thathe could no more go to sleep than go toHeaven, this was perhaps the wisest resolu-tion in his power. The quarter was so long, that he was morethan once convinced he must have sunk intoa doze unconsciously, and missed the clock.At length it broke upon his listening ear. Ding, dong ! * A quarter past, said Scrooge, counting. * Ding, dong ! * Half-past ! said Scrooge. Ding, dong ! A quarter to it, said Scrooge. Ding, dong ! The hour itself, said Scrooge, triumph-^antly, and nothing else ! 39

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