A Christmas carol . plug being left in soli-tude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, andturned to misanthropic ice. The brightnessof the shops where holly sprigs and berriescrackled in the lamp heat of the windows,made pale faces ruddy as they passed. Poult-erers and grocers trades became a splendid 14 H Cbristmas Carol joke : a glorious pageant, with which it wasnext to impossible to believe that such dullprinciples as bargain and sale had anything todo. The Lord Mayor,in the stronghold ofthe mighty MansionHouse, gave orders tohis fifty cooks andbutlers to keep Christ-mas as a Lord Mayorsho
A Christmas carol . plug being left in soli-tude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, andturned to misanthropic ice. The brightnessof the shops where holly sprigs and berriescrackled in the lamp heat of the windows,made pale faces ruddy as they passed. Poult-erers and grocers trades became a splendid 14 H Cbristmas Carol joke : a glorious pageant, with which it wasnext to impossible to believe that such dullprinciples as bargain and sale had anything todo. The Lord Mayor,in the stronghold ofthe mighty MansionHouse, gave orders tohis fifty cooks andbutlers to keep Christ-mas as a Lord Mayorshousehold s h o uld ;and even the littletailor, whom he hadfined five shillings onthe previous Mondayfor being drunk andbloodthirsty in thestreets, stirred up to-morrows pudding inhis garret, while hislean wife and the babysallied out to buy thebeef. Foggier yet, and colder ! Piercing, search-ing, biting cold. If the good Saint Dunstanhad but nipped the Evil Spirits nose with atouch of such weather as that, instead of. Stooped down at Scrooges keyholeto regale hifu with a Christmascaroiy 15 a Cbrtstmas Carol
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