A Christmas carol . 35 B Cbrlstmas Carol. to assist a wretched woman with an infant,whom it saw below, upon a door-step. Themisery with them all was, clearly, that theysought to interfere, for good, in human mat-ters, and had lost the power forever. Whether these creatures faded into mist, ormist enshrouded them, he could not tell. Butthey and their spirit voices faded together;and the night became as it had been when hewalked home. Scrooge closed the window, and examinedthe door by which the Ghost had entered. Itwas double-locked, as he had locked it withhis own hands, and the bolts were undi
A Christmas carol . 35 B Cbrlstmas Carol. to assist a wretched woman with an infant,whom it saw below, upon a door-step. Themisery with them all was, clearly, that theysought to interfere, for good, in human mat-ters, and had lost the power forever. Whether these creatures faded into mist, ormist enshrouded them, he could not tell. Butthey and their spirit voices faded together;and the night became as it had been when hewalked home. Scrooge closed the window, and examinedthe door by which the Ghost had entered. Itwas double-locked, as he had locked it withhis own hands, and the bolts were undis-turbed. He tried to say Humbug ! butstopped at the first syllable. And being,from the emotion he had undergone, or thefatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the In-visible World, or the dull conversation of theGhost, or the lateness of the hour, much inneed of repose, went straight to bed withoutundressing, and fell asleep upon the instant. 36
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