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1  Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
2  I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
3  It's just as likely as not," said Bob, "one of these days; though there's plenty of time for that, my dear.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
4  It's likely to be a very cheap funeral," said the same speaker; "for, upon my life, I don't know of anybody to go to it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
5  They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawn-broker's.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
6  Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprised that the Spirit should attach importance to conversations apparently so trivial; but, feeling assured that they must have some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
7  He looked about in that very place for his own image, but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and, though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in through the Porch.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS