1 Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 2 I passed his office window; and as it was not shut up, and he had a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 3 Then she began to drag him, in her childish eagerness, towards the door; and he, nothing loath to go, accompanied her.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 5 Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 6 It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.
7 But, scorning rest upon his reappearance, he instantly began again, though there were no dancers yet, as if the other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter, and he were a bran-new man resolved to beat him out of sight, or perish.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS