A Christmas carol . 1 dont know, said Scrooge. Why do you doubt your senses .^ Because, said Scrooge, a little thingaffects them. A slight disorder of the stomachmakes them cheats. You may be an undi-. H Cbrtstmas Carol gested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumbof cheese, a fragment of an underdone po-tato. There s more of gravy than of graveabout you, whatever you are ! Scrooge was not much in the habit ofcracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart,by any means waggish then. The truth is,that he tried to be smart, as a means of dis-tracting his own attention, and keeping Idov/n his terr
A Christmas carol . 1 dont know, said Scrooge. Why do you doubt your senses .^ Because, said Scrooge, a little thingaffects them. A slight disorder of the stomachmakes them cheats. You may be an undi-. H Cbrtstmas Carol gested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumbof cheese, a fragment of an underdone po-tato. There s more of gravy than of graveabout you, whatever you are ! Scrooge was not much in the habit ofcracking jokes, nor did he feel, in his heart,by any means waggish then. The truth is,that he tried to be smart, as a means of dis-tracting his own attention, and keeping Idov/n his terror ; for the spectres voice dis- (^turbed the very marrow in his bones. To sit, staring at those fixed, glazed eyes,in silence for a moment, would play, Scroogefelt, the very deuce with him. There wassomething very awful, too, in the spectresbeing provided with an infernal atmosphereof its own. Scrooge could not feel it himself,but this was clearly the case ; for though theGhost sat perfectly motionless, its hair, andskirts, and tassels, were still agitated as bythe hot vapour from an oven. You see this said Scrooge,returning quickly to the charge, for the reasonjust assigned ; and
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