Little Classics, Volumen5Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1875 |
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... knew he was dead ? Of course he did . How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years . Scrooge was his sole executor , his sole administrator , his sole assign , his sole residuary legatee , his ...
... knew he was dead ? Of course he did . How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years . Scrooge was his sole executor , his sole administrator , his sole assign , his sole residuary legatee , his ...
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... knew it . " Know it ! Was I apprenticed here ! " They went in . At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig , sitting behind such a high desk that , if he had been two inches taller , he must have knocked his head against the ceiling ...
... knew it . " Know it ! Was I apprenticed here ! " They went in . At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig , sitting behind such a high desk that , if he had been two inches taller , he must have knocked his head against the ceiling ...
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... knew what they were about , when they sung a Glee or Catch , I can assure you , cially Topper , who could growl away in the bass like a good one , and never swell the large veins in his fore- head , or get red in the face over it . But ...
... knew what they were about , when they sung a Glee or Catch , I can assure you , cially Topper , who could growl away in the bass like a good one , and never swell the large veins in his fore- head , or get red in the face over it . But ...
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... knew no more , for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved . " I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come ? Ghost of the Future ! I fear you more than any spectre I have seen . But as I know your purpose is to do me good ...
... knew no more , for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved . " I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come ? Ghost of the Future ! I fear you more than any spectre I have seen . But as I know your purpose is to do me good ...
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... knew , or any other good old city , town , or borough in the good old world . Some people laughed to see the alteration in him ; but his own heart laughed , and that was quite enough for him . He had no further intercourse with spirits ...
... knew , or any other good old city , town , or borough in the good old world . Some people laughed to see the alteration in him ; but his own heart laughed , and that was quite enough for him . He had no further intercourse with spirits ...
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asked began bless Bo-bo Bob Cratchit boots called candle clothes cried CRUST Dan Harroway dark dear door exclaimed eyes face father fellow felt fire Gadshill-in-the-Fields Geoffrey Gunn Ghost girl hand happy Harroway head hear heard heart Inmate Jacob Marley Jerry Rouse Jerry's JULES VERNE knees knew Lafarge laughed live looked Marley marriage master Mercy merry Christmas mind misery Miss Moriarty morning Nance Nash Navity Neal Malone Neal's never night O'Connor passed Pickersgill plase your honor poor round towers schoolmaster Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed shake Smilish Spirit stairs stood sure sure as fate tailor tell there's thing thought Tibbot O'Leary Tiny Tiny Tim told Tom Nash took TOTAL DEPRAVITY turned Uncle Scrooge Varuna W. D. HOWELLS walked wife woman word young Cratchits دو وو
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Página 10 - ... 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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Página 32 - Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the...
Página 30 - 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.
Página 93 - ... but before I had got to the end of the bridge my better feelings returned, and I burst into tears, thinking how ungrateful I had been to my good aunt, to go and give her good gift away to a stranger that I had never seen before, and who might be a bad man for aught I knew; and then I thought of the pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I (I myself, and not another) would eat her nice cake. And what should I say to her the next time I saw her ? — how naughty I was to part with her...
Página 86 - He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them, in his booby fashion, to his mouth. Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life, indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted — crackling ! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig.
Página 86 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 93 - I was to part with her pretty present ! — and the odour of that spicy cake came back upon my recollection, and the pleasure and the curiosity I had taken in seeing her make it, and her joy when she sent it to the oven, and how disappointed she would feel that I had never had a bit of it in my mouth at last. And I blamed my impertinent spirit of alms-giving, and out-of-place hypocrisy of goodness ; and above all, I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, good-fornothing, old grey impostor.
Página 88 - Ho-ti to be in a blaze; and Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize 85 town.
Página 88 - Eat, eat, eat the burnt pig, father, only taste — O Lord !" — with such-like barbarous ejaculations, cramming all the while as if he would choke. Ho-ti trembled in every joint while he grasped the abominable thing, wavering whether he should not put his son to death for an unnatural young monster, when the crackling scorching his fingers, as it had done his son's, and applying the same remedy to them, he in his turn tasted some of its flavor, which, make what sour mouths he would for a pretence,...
Página 94 - Whether, supposing that the flavour of a pig who obtained his death by whipping (per flagellationem extremam) superadded a pleasure upon the palate of a man more intense than any possible suffering we can conceive in the animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death ?