A Christmas carol . H Cbristmas Carol. They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, acrossthe hall, to a door at the back of the opened before them, and disclosed a long,bare, melancholy room, made barer still bylines of plain deal forms and desks. At oneof these a lonely boy was reading near afeeble fire ; and Scrooge sat down upon aform, and wept to see his poor forgotten selfas he had used to be. ot a latent echo in the house, not a squeakand scuffle from the mice behind the pan-elling, not a drip from the half-thawedwater-spout in the dull yard behind, not^^ a sigh among the leafless boughs
A Christmas carol . H Cbristmas Carol. They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, acrossthe hall, to a door at the back of the opened before them, and disclosed a long,bare, melancholy room, made barer still bylines of plain deal forms and desks. At oneof these a lonely boy was reading near afeeble fire ; and Scrooge sat down upon aform, and wept to see his poor forgotten selfas he had used to be. ot a latent echo in the house, not a squeakand scuffle from the mice behind the pan-elling, not a drip from the half-thawedwater-spout in the dull yard behind, not^^ a sigh among the leafless boughs of one de-t^ spondent poplar, not the idle swinging of anempty store-house door, no, not a clicking inthe fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge withsoftening influence, and gave a freer passageto his tears. The Spirit touched him on the arm, andpointed to his younger self, intent upon hisreading. Suddenly a man, in foreign gar-ments : wonderfully real and distinct to lookat : stood outside the window, with an axestuck in his belt,
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