Subject for December, 2018
Stave Five: The End of It – 2
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
He had not gone far, when coming on towards him he beheld the portly gentleman, who had walked into his counting-house the day before, and said, “Scrooge and Marley’s, I believe...
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Stave Five: The End of It – 1
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in! “I will live in the Pa...
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Stave Four: The Last of The Spirits – 4
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
“The colour hurts my eyes,” she said. The colour? Ah, poor Tiny Tim! “They’re better now again,” said Cratchit’s wife. “It makes them weak by candle-light; and I wouldn’t show w...
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Stave Four: The Last of The Spirits – 3
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
“Don’t you be afraid of that,” returned the woman. “I an’t so fond of his company that I’d loiter about him for such things, if he did. Ah! you may look through that shirt till ...
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Stave Four: The Last of The Spirits – 2
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand. When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied from the turn of the hand, and its situati...
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Stave Four: The Last of The Spirits – 1
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatt...
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Stave Three: The Second of The Three Spirits – 5
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
“What place is this?” asked Scrooge. “A place where Miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth,” returned the Spirit. “But they know me. See!” A light shone from the win...
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Stave Three: The Second of The Three Spirits – 4
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered an...
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Stave Three: The Second of The Three Spirits – 3
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, t...
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Stave Three: The Second of The Three Spirits – 2
Subject: A Christmas Carol in Prose
Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly. So did the roo...
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