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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** Spirit ! are they yours ? Scrooge couldsay no more. They are Mans, said the Spirit, lookingdown upon them. And they cling to me,appealing from their fathers. This boy isIgnorance. This girl is Want. Beware themboth, and all of their degree, but most of allbeware this boy, for on his brow 1 see thatwritten which is Doom, unless the writing beerased. Deny it ! cried the Spirit, stretchingout its hand towards the city. Slanderthose who tell it ye ! Admit it for yourfactious purposes, and make it worse ! Andbide the end ! Have they no refuge or resource ? criedScrooge. Are there no prisons? said the Spirit,turning on him for the last time with hisown words. Are there no work-houses ? The bell struck twelve. Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost,and saw it not. As the last stroke ceased tovibrate, he remembered the prediction of oldJacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld asolemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming,like a mist along the ground, towards him. 114
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STAVE FOUR THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS THE Phantom slowly, gravely, silently ap-proached. When it came near him,Scrooge bent down upon his knee ; forin the very air through which this Spirit movedit seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment,which concealed its head, its face, its form,and left nothing of it visible save one out-stretched hand. But for this it would havebeen difficult to detach its figure from thenight, and separate it from the darkness bywhich it was surrounded. He felt that it was tall and stately when itcame beside him, and that its mysterious pres-ence filled him with a solemn dread. He knewno more, for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved. I am in the presence of the Ghost ofChristmas Yet To Come ? said Scrooge. The Spirit answered not, but pointed down-ward with its hand. *You are about to show me shadows ofthe things that have not happened, but will 5

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