Christmas Books ~ Paperbound

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Marleys Ghost
9
The First of the Three Spirits
30
The Second of the Three Spirits
49
The Last of the Spirits
74
The End of it
91

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Sivu 11 - Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him ; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, "No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master ! V) But what did Scrooge care ! It was the very thing he liked.
Sivu 12 - The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he...
Sivu 11 - No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn't know where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect. They often "came down" handsomely, and Scrooge never did. Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, " My dear Scrooge, how are you ? When will...
Sivu 18 - But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning.
Sivu vii - a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

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