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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ley, tell me more. Speak comfort to me,Jacob. 1 have none to give, the Ghost replied.It comes from other regions, EbenezerScrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers,to other kinds of men. Nor can I tell youwhat I would. A very little more, is all per-mitted to me. I cannot rest, I cannot stay, Icannot linger anywhere. My spirit neverwalked beyond our counting-house — markme ! -*-in life my spirit never roved beyond^^.^^ our money-changing hole; and weary ^ i^^ journeys lie before me ! It was a habit with Scrooge, whenever hebecame thoughtful, to put his hands in hisbreeches pockets. Pondering on what theGhost had said, he did so now, but withoutlifting up his eyes, or getting off his knees. You must have been very slow about it,Jacob, Scrooge observed, in a business-likemanner, though with humility and deference. Slow ! the Ghost repeated. Seven years dead, mused Scrooge.And travelling all the time ! The whole time, said the Ghost. Norest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse. 30
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H Cbristmas Carol You travel fast ? said Scrooge. On the wings of the wind, replied theGhost. You might have got over a great quantityof ground in seven years, said Scrooge. The Ghost, on hearing this, set up anothercry, and clanked its chain so hideously in thedead silence of the night, that the Ward wouldhave been justified in indicting it for a nuisance. *0h ! captive, bound, and double-ironed,cried the phantom, not to know, that agesof incessant labour, by immortal creatures,for this earth must pass into eternity beforethe good of which it is susceptible is all de-veloped. Not to know that any Christianspirit working kindly in its little sphere, what-ever it may be, will find its mortal life tooshort for its vast means of usefulness. Notto know that no space of regret can makeamends for one lifes opportunity misused !Yet such was 1 ! Oh ! such was I ! But you were always a good man of busi-ness, Jacob, faltered Scrooge, who now be-gan to apply this to himself. Business ! cried the

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