Tiny Tim, Dot and the Fairy Cricket: From the Christmas StoriesRedfield, 1856 - 176 стор. |
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asked Scrooge baby Bertha bless Blind Girl Bob Cratchit Boxer Camden Town chair cheerful child chimney corner chirp Christmas Day clasped clerk clock cold Cricket cried Scrooge cried the Blind dark dear dear John dinner door EBENEZER Scrooge exclaimed eyes face fairy father fire gone Gruff and Tackleton Hallo hand happy head hear heard heart honor hope Jacob Jacob Marley John Peerybingle kettle kind knew laughed light little woman live looked Marley marriage merry Christmas mind Miss Slowboy never observed old Fezziwig old gentleman Phantom poor replied returned the Carrier round Scrooge's nephew Scrooge's niece Shade shadows sitting smile sorry spirit of Christmas stood sure tell there's thing thought Tilly Slowboy Tiny Tiny Tim to-night told took turkey turned Uncle Scrooge voice walked wife window wonder word
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Сторінка 56 - Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the...
Сторінка 54 - and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.
Сторінка 55 - ... gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
Сторінка 12 - I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So A Merry Christmas, uncle!
Сторінка 7 - MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Сторінка 9 - ... so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. 'A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!
Сторінка 66 - But they didn't devote the whole evening to music. After a while they played at forfeits ; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.
Сторінка 11 - ... as a good time ; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time ; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely...
Сторінка 13 - The clerk, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had let two other people in. They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge's office. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him. "Scrooge and Marley's, I believe," said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list.
Сторінка 9 - 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.