A Christmas Carol continued
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- Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one;
- “He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!” cried Scrooge’s nephew. “He believed it too!”“Ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha!”
- 'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree'
- 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 and cracked noisily.
- ThePhantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached.
- “He has given us plenty of merriment, I am sure,” said Fred, “and it would be ungrateful not to drink his health. Here is a glass of mulled wine ready to our hand at the moment; and I say, ‘Uncle Scrooge!’ ”
- “Ah!” returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward on her crossed arms. “Bed-curtains!”
- “Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”The bell struck twelve.Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost and saw it not.
- “and I would do it, if I could. But I have not the power, Spirit. I have not the power.”
- It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand.
- “You don’t mean to say you took ’em down, rings and all, with him lying there?” said Joe.“Yes I do,” replied the woman. “Why not?”“You were born to make your fortune,” said Joe, “and you’ll certainly do it.”
- A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone. Whattheywanted in the room of death, and why they were so restless and disturbed, Scrooge did not dare to think.
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