Christmas BooksChapman and Hall, 1869 - 411 頁 |
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Alfred an't arms asked baby Bells Bertha bless Blind Girl Bob Cratchit Boxer Britain Caleb Carrier chair cheerful Chemist child Chirp Christmas Clemency Craggs Cratchit Cricket cried dance dark dear Doctor door Ebenezer Scrooge exclaimed eyes face father Fezziwig fire gentleman Ghost gone Grace hand happy head hear heard heart hope husband Jacob Marley John Johnny kissed knew laughed light listened live looked Marion marriage married merry Milly mind Moloch mother never night Nutmeg Grater Oh father pease pudding Peerybingle Phantom poor Redlaw replied returned round Scrooge seemed shadow Sir Joseph sister Slowboy smile Snitchey sorrow Spectre Spirit stood sure Tackleton tell Tetterby There's thing thought Tiny Tim to-night took trembling tripe Trotty Tugby turned Uncle Scrooge voice wife William words young
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第 17 頁 - Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. 'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
第 45 頁 - At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the fire. Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one ; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
第 44 頁 - Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table ; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and, mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped.
第 72 頁 - I should hope I did," replied the lad. "An intelligent boy!" said Scrooge. "A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there? Not the little prize turkey: the big one?
第 56 頁 - They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it!
第 45 頁 - Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
第 6 頁 - ... 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.
第 44 頁 - Bob, turning up his cuffs as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round, and put it on the hob to simmer, Master Peter and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.
第 76 頁 - He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world.
第 37 頁 - ... of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there ; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that...