1 "Not coming," said Mrs. Cratchit.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 2 "Come, then," returned the nephew gaily.
3 Come back with the man, and I'll give you a shilling.
4 It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men.
5 It makes them weak by candle-light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father, when he comes home, for the world.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 6 The cellar door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door.
7 The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one; but write it he did, somehow, and went down-stairs to open the street-door, ready for the coming of the poulterer's man.
8 As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and, lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming like a mist along the ground towards him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 9 The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before--though at a different time, he thought: indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save that they were in the Future--into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS