1 But I suppose you must have the whole day.
2 "But you might know it," observed the gentleman.
3 But it had undergone a surprising transformation.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 But, before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right.
5 But the Ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fire-place, as if he were quite used to it.
6 But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last.
7 But the relentless Ghost pinioned him in both his arms, and forced him to observe what happened next.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 8 But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home.
9 But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned it sturdily, walked in, and lighted his candle.
10 "But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
11 But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
12 But soon the steeples called good people all to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest faces.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 13 But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
14 But, finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands, and, lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 15 But, scorning rest upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 16 But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 17 But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she, with laughing face and plundered dress, was borne towards it in the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.
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