1 There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 2 There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge and Marley.
3 Scrooge closed the window, and examined the door by which the Ghost had entered.
4 They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a door at the back of the house.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 5 But, before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right.
6 Scrooge looked at the Ghost, and, with a mournful shaking of his head, glanced anxiously towards the door.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 7 Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double locked himself in, which was not his custom.
8 He fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs: slowly, too: trimming his candle as he went.
9 Now, it is a fact that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large.
10 His colour changed, though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes.
11 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.
12 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.
13 The cellar door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards his door.
14 Nor was it more retentive of its ancient state within; for, entering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 15 There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 16 And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change--not a knocker, but Marley's face.
17 You may talk vaguely about driving a coach and six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall, and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.
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