They went in. At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig, sitting behind such a high desk, that if he had been two inches taller, he must have knocked his head against the ceiling, Scrooge cried in great excitement: “Why, it’s old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it’s Fezziwig alive again!”
Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol
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Previously:
- Too much getting up by candlelight…
- The school is not quite deserted…
- “What”, exclaimed the Ghost…
- The First Ghost
- Mankind was my business…
- Speak comfort to me
- It is a ponderous chain!
- There’s more of gravy than of grave about you…
- Ask me who I was…
- The chain Marley drew…
- …double locked himself in…
- Darkness is cheap…
- Marley’s Face
- He lived in chambers…
- …even more congenial frost.
- …decrease the surplus population…
- …open their shut-up hearts freely…
- Boiled with his own pudding…
- …not being a man of strong imagination, he failed…
- Even the blind men’s dogs
- A tight-fisted hand at the grindstone
- Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #24 – …tuned like fifty stomachaches.
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #25 – He has the power to render us happy or unhappy…
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #26 – What Idol has displaced you?
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #27 – …shadows of the things that have been.
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #28 – Come in and know me better man!
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #29 – Bob Cratchit’s house
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #30 – There was nothing of high mark in this.
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #31 – His offenses carry their own punishment
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #32 – …and taught Scrooge his precepts
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #33 – The boy is Ignorance. The girl is Want.
Pingback: My Word with Douglas E. Welch » My Favorite Quotes from A Christmas Carol #34 – Are there no prisons?