1 The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 2 The clerk observed that it was only once a year.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 3 I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 The clerk promised that he would; and Scrooge walked out with a growl.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 5 The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 6 Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 7 Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 8 He stopped at the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 9 There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge, who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 10 The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open, that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 11 With an ill-will Scrooge dismounted from his stool, and tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 12 But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST