A Christmas Carol in Prose: The Chimes; The Cricket on the HearthB. Tauchnitz, 1846 - 286 páginas |
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A Christmas Carol in Prose: The Chimes ; the Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens Vista completa - 1846 |
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Alderman Cute an't arms Baby Bells Bertha bless Blind Girl Bob Cratchit Bowley Boxer Caleb chair CHARLES DICKENS cheerful child Chimes Chirp Christmas Carol clock cold Cratchit Cricket cried Trotty dark daughter dear door Ebenezer Scrooge exclaimed eyes face Fern Fezziwig Filer fire gentleman Ghost gone Gruff and Tackleton hand happy head hear heard heart hope Jacob Marley John Peerybingle Kettle kissed knew lady laughed light Lilian listened live looked Marley Marley's married merry Christmas mind Miss Slowboy mother never night Oh father poor replied Richard Robin Crusoe round Scrooge's nephew Sir Joseph smile Spirit stood sure TAUCHNITZ tell There's thing thought Tilly Tiny Tim to-night Toby Veck took tripe trot Tugby turned Uncle Scrooge voice walked wife woman word Year's Day young
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Página 43 - Its tenderness and flavor, size and cheapness, were the themes of universal admiration. Eked out by apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family ; indeed, as Mrs. Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish), they hadn't ate it all at last...
Página 5 - ... 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 fellowtravellers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Página 1 - Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Scrooge 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 sole friend, and sole mourner.
Página 43 - 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 41 - There's father coming," cried the two young Cratchits, who were everywhere at once. "Hide, Martha, hide!" So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame! "Why, where's our Martha?" cried Bob Cratchit, looking round....
Página 4 - Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books, and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas...
Página 45 - ... when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income. Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner's, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant...
Página 1 - 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.
Página 2 - The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
Página 42 - Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table...