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...Contents A CHRISTMAS TREE ......................................................................................................................................... 4 WHAT CHRISTMAS IS .......................................................

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... Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...ity. 3 Charles Dickens Cont Cont Cont Cont Contents ents ents ents ents A CHRISTMAS TREE ............................................................... ...................................................................... 4 WHAT CHRISTMAS IS.................................................................. .................................................................. 54 4 Some Christmas Stories Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Some Short Chri... ...s Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Some Short Christmas Stories A CHRISTMAS TREE I HAVE BEEN LOOKING ON, this evening, at a merry com pany o... ... at a merry com pany of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, ... ...l remember best upon the branches of the Christ- mas Tree of our own young Christmas days, by which we climbed to real life. Straight, in the middle o... ...that it appears to grow downward towards the earth—I look into my youngest Christmas recollections! All toys at first, I find. Up yonder, among the gr...

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...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens I have endeavoured in this Ghostl... ...ng to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 3 before the play began, there would be nothing... ...ith him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No war... ...hy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call ‘nuts’ to Scrooge. A Christmas Carol: Stave 1 4 Once upon a time — of all the good days in th... ...as Carol: Stave 1 4 Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house. It was cold, ... ...n which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. ‘A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!’ cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice... ...ace was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. ‘Christmas a humbug, uncle!’ said Scrooge’s nephew. ‘You don’t mean that, ... ...ge’s nephew. ‘You don’t mean that, I am sure?’ ‘I do, ’ said Scrooge. ‘Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be me...

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... wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C. D. December, 1843. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. STA VE ONE. MARLEY’S GHOST M ARLEY was dead: to begin wi... ...ith him; he iced his office in the dog days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warm... ... 4 A CRISTMAS CAROL Once upon a time — of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve — old Scrooge sat busy in his counting house. It was cold, ... ...n which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed. “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice... ...ace was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. “Christmas a humbug, uncle!” said Scrooge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, ... ...oge’s nephew. “You don’t mean that, I am sure.” “I do,” said Scrooge. “Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? what reason have you to be me... ...be,” returned the uncle, “when I live in such a world of fools as this Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas. What’s Christmas time to MARLEY’S G... ... my will,” said Scrooge indignantly, “every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried... ...!” “Uncle!” pleaded the nephew. “Nephew!” returned the uncle, sternly, “keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” “Keep it!” repeat...

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...s ON SOME CARP AT SANS SOUCI ............................ 4 DE JUVENTUTE.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19...

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.......................................................... 10 ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE ............ 19 4 Thackeray Some Roundabout Papers by W. M.... ...tomime, turkey and sausages, plum-puddings, jollifications for schoolboys; Christmas bills, and reminiscences more or less sad and sweet for elders. I... ...ival too. Beef, beer, and pudding will be served to her for that day also. Christmas falls on a Thursday. Friday is the workhouse day for coming out. ... ...ave to come out for a day of Christ- mas holiday. Shall there be many more Christmases for thee? Think of the ninety she has seen already; the foursco... ...f! Do not be cynical. Do not mistrust your fellow-creatures. What? Has the Christmas morning dawned upon thee ninety times? For four- score and ten ye... ... earth, hungry and obscure? Peace and goodwill to thee, let us say at this Christmas season. Come, drink, eat, rest awhile at our hearth, thou poor ol... ...cent hands war has torn the means of labour. Enough! As I hope for beef at Christmas, I vow a note shall be sent to Saint Lazarus Union House, in whic... ...a hushed blessing were upon it. 19 Some Roundabout Papers ROUND ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE T he kindly Christmas tree, from which I trust every gentle ... ...They are four, five, six years old. Patience, little people! A dozen merry Christmases more, and you will be reading those wonderful love-conundrums, ...

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...no!” shouted Maria. “Fifteen cents for the lot! I might as well make you a Christmas present! Besides, I got some gold fillings off him; look at um.” ... ...oom was prolific in pictures. Most of them were framed colored prints from Christmas editions of the Lon- don “Graphic” and “Illustrated News,” the su... ... party. He read the papers, he subscribed to a dental magazine; on Easter, Christmas, and New Year’s he went to church with Trina. He commenced to hav... ...k in her chair with a long sigh of re- lief. She had just finished a large Christmas order for Uncle Oelbermann, and there was nothing else she could ... ... children break their things, and that they all have to have birthdays and Christmases.” She dipped her brush into a pot of Vandyke brown and painted ... ...upon the bed and biting the mattress. On a certain day, about a week after Christmas of that year, McT eague was on one of the top floors of the music... ...o’clock. The following day was to be a fete day at the kindergar- ten, the Christmas and New Year festivals combined. All that afternoon the little tw...

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...t among us all, When time hangs heavy in the hall, And snow comes thick at Christmas-tide, And we can neither hunt, nor ride A foray on the Scottish s... ...ng day. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO SIXTH. TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun House, Christmas. Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it w... ...ore wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We’ll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest ti... ...ires of old Loved, when the year its course had rolled, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious... ...table train. Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night; On Christmas Eve the bells were rung; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung; That... ...ly trowls. There the huge sirloin reeked; hard by Plum-porridge stood, and Christmas pie; Nor failed old Scotland to produce, At such high tide, her s... ...ght Can boast of bosoms half so light! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. ’T was Christmas broached the mightiest... ...ught his sports again. ’T was Christmas broached the mightiest ale; ’T was Christmas told the merriest tale: A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The po... ... blood, our proverbs deem, Is warmer than the mountain-stream. And thus my Christmas still I hold Where my great grandsire came of old, With amber bea...

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...ills, and in very idleness of mind he calculated that he might be home for Christmas if he started on the morrow. The fancy thrilled him with desire, ... ...ess. CHAPTER V—THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN B Y A LITTLE AFTER NOON on the eve of Christmas, John had left his portmanteau in the cloak-room, and stepped for... ...ugh; and it suddenly struck me it would be a noble scheme to come home for Christmas.’ ‘I see,’ said Beatson. ‘Well, I hope we’ll see something of you... ...hat I took from you. I have come back to ask your forgiveness, and to stay Christmas with you and the children.’ ‘Keep your money,’ said the father, ‘... ...; and wherever he went, a volley of eager sparrows followed him. Here were Christmas weather and Christmas morn- ing duly met, to the delight of child... ...raded end that made John shudder. What if Alan were dead? There would be a Christmas-day! By this, John had his hand upon the shutters, and fling- ing... ...de off downhill to find a cab. Half-way down a gate opened, and a troop of Christmas children sallied forth in the most cheerful humour, followed more... ...t cheerful humour, followed more soberly by a smiling mother. ‘And this is Christmas-day!’ thought John; and could have laughed aloud in tragic bitter... ...othing like a dram for ye—if ye’ll take my advice of it; and bein’ as it’s Christmas, I’m no’ saying,’ he added, with a fatherly smile, ‘but what I wo...

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...’ ‘Man of science!’ exclaimed Lily, ‘when he will have for- gotten by next Christmas that insects ever existed.’ It was not convenient to hear this sp... ...ured assiduously to find the secret of perpetual motion. A few days before Christmas Rachel Harvey again took leave of Beechcroft, with a promise that... ...e offended than convinced by the remon- strance. 115 Yo n g e CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS... ...PTER XIV—CHRISTMAS CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS CHAPTER XIV—CHRISTMAS ‘Slee, sla, slud, Stuck in the mud, O! it is pretty to wade throu... ...the parish had been in ever since her former indiscretion. The approach of Christmas, however, made it necessary for her to exert herself a little mor... ... principal houses in the parish to receive sixpence, to- wards providing a Christmas dinner, and it was Lily’s busi- ness to dispense this dole at the... ...e zeal than dis- cretion, as she proved by an expedition which she took on Christmas Eve. Mr. Mohun did not allow the poor of the village to depend en... ...e is grown inhospitable: he will not let me come here to- morrow—the first Christmas these five years that I have missed paying my respects to the New... ...m,’ said Florence, ‘it would be too bad to leave mamma and me to spend our Christmas alone, when we came to the castle on purpose to oblige him.’ ‘Ay,...

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...l, and look about her a little before finally deciding upon the Pleasance. Christmas at Knight Sutton Hall had the great- est charms in the eyes of He... ...r is open,” said Beatrice; “I suppose they are bring- ing in the holly for Christmas. Should you like to look in, Henrietta?” “I do not know,” said sh... ...er a glance which sent her to the other end of the church to assist in the Christmas decorations. Henrietta turned her liquid eyes upon her uncle. “Th... ...urch! And, mamma, Mr. Franklin has asked us to go and dress the church for Christmas! Is not that what of all things is delightful? Only think of chur... ...e was? 57 Yo n g e CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI CHRISTMAS EVE, which was also a Saturday, dawned brightly on Henrietta, but... ... and thankfulness for the “good tidings of great joy.” Another and another Christmas hymn was raised, and never were carols sung by happier voices; an... ...r?” said her uncle, as she shrunk closer to him in a sort of alarm. “Would Christmas be worth observing if it were not for Good Friday?” “Yes, it is r... ...Imperfect rhymes, bad voices, no time observed; but how joyous,—how really Christmas-like—how well it suited the soft half-light, the last pale shine ... ...plum buns, and Mr. Geoffrey’s sixpences, were a very enjoyable part of the Christmas festivities. 72 Henrietta’s Wish CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER...

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...aid. ‘Come, listen! here is proof that you were missed: We seven stayed at Christmas up to read; And there we took one tutor as to read: The hard-grai... ... of home— As many little trifling Lilias—played Charades and riddles as at Christmas here, And what’ s my thought and when and where and how, 7 Tenny... ... And what’ s my thought and when and where and how, 7 Tennyson As here at Christmas.’ She remembered that: A pleasant game, she... ...and so We forged a sevenfold story. Kind? what kind? Chimeras, crotchets, Christmas solecisms, Seven-headed monsters only made to kill Time by the fi...

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...quire in Buckinghamshire. All she ever gets from her family is a turkey at Christmas, in exchange for which she has to board two or three of her siste... ...son, and that the broth- ers’ families should meet again in the country at Christmas. “I wish you could have got a little money out of him,” Rawdon sa... ...er sum speedily to be assigned to him. And Rebecca told Miss Briggs, whose Christmas dividend upon the little sum lent by her Becky paid with an air o... ...er broom and sweeps away the thread and the artificer. A day or two before Christmas, Becky, her husband and 204 V anity Fair – V olume Two her son m... ...ore the light windows of the Hall, which were blazing and comfortable with Christmas welcome. The hall- door was flung open—a big fire was burning in ... ...ieved at the absence of the lady of the medicine chest; though she wrote a Christmas letter to her Ladyship, in which she respectfully recalled hersel... ... mar- ket-days; and so much interested about county business; and that the Christmas at the Hall was the gayest which had been known there for many a ... ...the Hall was the gayest which had been known there for many a long day. On Christmas Day a great family gathering took place. All the Crawleys from th... ...ck- or snipe-shooting, or a little quiet trifling with the rats during the Christmas holidays, after which he will return to the University and try an...

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...arkle with ecstasy through his letters, and he was a capital dancer in the Christmas parties at his London home. He had likewise the courage and patie... ...845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. ON. 1838—1845. AFTER the Christmas holidays of 1837-8, when Coley Patteson was nearly eleven years o... ... rocks, boated, fished, and ran exquisitely wild in the summer holi- days. Christmas was spent with the Judge’s mother at Ipswich, amongst numerous co... ...e journey to London was a great fatigue to an invalid, her desire to spend Christmas in Devonshire led to her remaining there with her daughters, when... ...sooner than his brother and sisters. The whole family spent their mournful Christmas at Thorverton Rectory, with Dr. and Mrs. Coleridge and their daug... ...beauty with a mixture of timidity quite indescribable.’ Returning home for Christmas, Coley started again in Janu- ary 1851, in charge of a pupil, the... ...tter of one in weak health. W ell, we shall see each other, please GOD, at Christmas now. That is better than passing nearly or quite a year away from... ...all. And now, my darling, I will tell you my secret. I am going to sail at Christmas, if I live so long, a great way from England, right to the other ... ...eople, and for many reasons it is thought right that I should go. So after Christmas you will not see me again for a very long time, perhaps never in ...

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...r in his happy countenance, that was created by the thoughts of home and a Christmas fireside, with its Christmas frolics. The sleigh was one of those... ...nst muster courage enough to stand fire, I will give thee a saddle for thy Christmas dinner.” The black drew up, with a cheerful grin upon his chilled... ... no,” said the old roan, shaking his head; “I have work to do at home this Christmas eve—drive on with the boy, and let your doctor look to the should... ... bruises, and it’s likelier than not he’ll be in with brooms to sweep your Christmas ha’arths.” “Stop, stop,” cried the youth, catching the arm of the... ...he shot extracted, and bring you up to-night a quarter of the buck for the Christmas dinner.” He was interrupted by the hunter, who held up his finger... ...to the party without a head, he cried: “ Here is a tidbit for an old man’s Christmas—never mind the venison, boy, and remember Indian John; his yarbs ... ... or, what is just now of more pressing necessity, able to do the honors of Christmas eve in the hall of T empleton?” “More able to do either, my dear ... ...d usages of the Puritans, like the “bon homme de Noel.” he arrives at each Christmas. 44 The Pioneers The black grinned, conscious of the bribe that ... ...l matter like this now; well, to think that ‘Duke has killed a buck before Christmas! There will be no such thing as living with him—they are both bad...

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...ved that dear and eminently remarkable boy, on the occurrence of his first Christmas holidays. Suffice it to observe that when he came flying into the... ...picture may be interesting to himself when he is a man. Our first reunited Christmas-day was the most delightful one we have ever passed together. Jem...

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...r, but after that he kept the thing for repeated last touches. Finally, on Christmas day, by arrangement, she sat there and listened to it. It was in ... ... Hill, who wrote children’s books and who, it appeared, had once written a Christmas pantomime. It was quite an artistic home—not on the scale of Mrs....

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... and wonder when their hens would begin to lay. It could hardly be a merry Christmas for the poor chil- dren, though they did stick holly in every chi... ...erhaps, rather over much of the goose at home. Bristol people were keeping Christmas with all their might, making the more noise and revelry because t... ...face looked at him which he knew to be that of the Dean. “Is that all your Christmas meal, my good boy?” he asked. “I shall have something for supper,... ...eadfast held himself to be a yeo- man in a small way, and somewhat above a Christmas feast with the poor, but the Dean’s kindness was enough to make h... ... but that the good Dean would have it so in order that one more true merry Christmas should be remem- bered in Bristol. 53 Yo n g e CHAPTER X CHAPTER... ...and Patience begged her brother to take care of himself. There had been no Christmas feast at the Deanery, it was understood that the Dean thought it ... ... attendants of the officers in the very stone hall where he had eaten that Christmas dinner some twenty months before. There was a very long grace pro... ...ish. It was when he had seen the Prince of Wales going to the Cathedral on Christmas Day, in the midst of all his plumed generals, with their gay scar... ...lds, which by ancient cus- tom were all thrown open from harvest time till Christmas; and coming out into the open bit of common that the trav- ellers...

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...ung Step-Mother CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS did indeed put an end to the walks to meet Gilbert, but ... ...ven Mr. Kendal was alarmed. Sophia’s birthday fell in the last week before Christmas, and it had always been the family custom to drink tea with Mrs. ... ...en no one as yet, and she is so determined that you cannot come till after Christmas, that she does not expect you.’ Miss Meadows began one of her tan... ...hand a most happy affectionate letter from Gilbert, detailing the Fairmead Christmas fes- tivities. She felt the invigoration of change of room, admir... ... party. T o this Albinia pettishly replied that the girls were to go to no Christmas parties without her; Miss Meadows had taken it very much to heart... ...e aware— only grandmamma was so nervous about poor dear Gibbie missing his Christmas dinner for the first time—being ab- sent—Mrs. Ferrars would take ... ...CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X CHAPTER X IT WAS ‘A GREEN YULE,’ a Christmas like an April day, and even the lengthening days and strengthenin... ...med, ‘Now I do not know the date! Can you tell me that, papa?’ ‘It was the Christmas-day next after your birth,’ he said. ‘I remember that, for we too... ...ext after your birth,’ he said. ‘I remember that, for we took you to spend Christmas at the nearest station of troops, and the chaplain christened you...

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...r in venturing on such an outlay in goods that would not keep; to be sure, Christmas was coming, but what housewife in Grimworth would not think shame... ...fferent thing in top-boots! This brutal man had invited a supper-party for Christmas eve, when he would expect to see mince-pies on the table. Mrs. St...

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...definite about this dangler; she knew about his people; she had heard of him before. Hadn’t he been a friend of one of her nephews at Oxford? Hadn’t h... ...t of modelling was simple enough. I was really digging in that sandy desert for the buried treasure of his soul. CHAPTER VI It befell at this period, ...

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... every one else must be the same, and now he will be married to her before Christmas, so that’s disposed of. As to my feel- ing for her a particle, a ... ...ext day, and should be ready for the happy pair when they would return for Christmas, after a brief stay at Thornton Conway, which Isabel wished James... ... among all his acquaintance most likely to furnish a distracting amount of Christmas gaieties. In the midst of these, there occurred a vacancy in the ... ... do you think there would be any objection to my coming into Lima just for Christmas?’ ‘I suppose not; I cannot tell.’ Tom explained that all the mine... ...might safely be left in charge of the works, while he only wished to spend Christmas-day itself in the city, and would be a very short time absent. He... ... good a man he was, and how cruel and mistaken his sister thought her. And Christmas came, when the churches were perfect or- ange-groves, and the sce... ...irmament of stars had been by no means lost on him. That interview was her Christmas treat. Well for her that she did not hear Robson say, ‘That young... ...magnanimously returned unopened a shining en- velope of Mr. Delaford’s. At Christmas, when Mr. and Mrs. Frost went to pay a visit at Beauchastel, and ... ...is last messages to his grandson. James and Isabel spent a pleasant lively Christmas with their hospitable old friends, and James returned full of fre...