1 Scrooge bent before the Ghost's rebuke, and, trembling, cast his eyes upon the ground.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 2 Pondering on what the Ghost had said, he did so now, but without lifting up his eyes, or getting off his knees.
3 His colour changed, though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes.
4 He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.
5 The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.
6 He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
7 As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and, lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming like a mist along the ground towards him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS