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If I could work my will,’ said Scrooge indignantly, `every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s-book , went home to bed. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. Before telling us the incident with the door knocker, the narrator makes a point of telling us that Scrooge’s door knocker had always been a It was not until now, when the bright faces of his former self and Dick were turned from them, that he remembered the Ghost, and became conscious that it was looking full upon him, while the light upon its head burnt very clear.To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale. S wanting to cover it, shows that S has gotten used to the life of sadness and sin and he has lost hope. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. There was something very awful, too, in the spectre’s being provided with an infernal atmosphere of its own.

Purchasing a CGP Online Edition title grants you access to the title for three years from the date of purchase.This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Scrooge mutters that Cratchit, with a wife and family and nothing to live on, can’t possibly be merry. Every time he resolved within himself, after mature inquiry that it was all a dream, his mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position, and presented the same problem to be worked all through, “Was it a dream or not?

A very, very brief time, and you will dismiss the recollection of it , gladly, as an unprofitable dream , from which it happened well that you awoke. Dickens addresses issues of social injustice and inequality, urging readers to consider the well-being of others during the holiday season and beyond. The parties do not intend that any provisions of this Agreement shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person not a party to it. The gentlemen reply that the workhouse hardly encourages Christian seasonal merriment, and that some would rather die than be put there.He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors including Washington Irving and Douglas Jerrold.

Goodwill, cheer, charity and joy are all given freely during the season, and though he acknowledges that celebrating Christmas has never made him rich, he says that it has enriched him as a person.One Christmas time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that.