Achristmascarol3 Transcript
Achristmascarol3 Transcript
Achristmascarol3 Transcript
A Christmas Carol
Episode 3: The first of the
three spirits
Ding, dong!
A quarter past, said Scrooge, counting.
Ding, dong!
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Ding, dong!
I am!
The voice was soft and gentle, as if, instead of being so close beside him, it were
at a distance.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
They walked along the road; Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree;
until a little market-town appeared in the
distance, with its bridge, its church, and
winding river. Some shaggy ponies now
were seen trotting towards them with
boys upon their backs, who called to other
boys in carts driven by farmers. All these
boys were in great spirits, and shouted
to each other, until the broad fields were
so full of merry music, that the crisp air
laughed to hear it.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a
most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened
and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city,
indeed.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
another Christmas!
Scrooges former self grew larger at the
words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty. The panels shrunk, the
windows cracked and fragments of plaster fell out of the ceiling. But how all this
was brought about, Scrooge knew not. He
only knew that there he was, alone again,
when all the other boys had gone home
for the jolly holidays.
He was not reading now, but walking up
and down despairingly. Scrooge looked at
the Ghost, and with a mournful shaking of
his head, glanced anxiously towards the
door.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
A voice in the hall cried. Bring down Master Scrooges box, there! and in the hall
appeared the schoolmaster himself, who
showed young Scrooge and his sister into
the parlour. Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of
curiously heavy cake and, at the same
time, sent out a servant to offer a glass of
something to the postboy.
Master Scrooges trunk being by this time
tied to the top of the coach, the children
bade the schoolmaster good-bye right
willingly; and getting into it, drove gaily
down the garden-sweep, the quick wheels
dashing the frost and snow from the dark
leaves of the evergreens like spray.
Always a delicate creature, your sister, said the Ghost. But she had a large
heart!
So she had! cried Scrooge. Youre right,
I will not deny it!
She died a woman, said the Ghost, and
had, as I think, children.
One child, Scrooge returned.
True, said the Ghost. Your nephew!
Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind; and
answered briefly, Yes.
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