1 "It matters little," she said softly.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 2 A very little more is all permitted to me.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 3 Its rapid little pulse beat twelve, and stopped.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 Because," said Scrooge, "a little thing affects them.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 5 External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 6 Scrooge's former self grew larger at the words, and the room became a little darker and more dirty.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 7 He was obliged to rub the frost off with the sleeve of his dressing-gown before he could see anything; and could see very little then.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 8 She clapped her hands and laughed, and tried to touch his head; but, being too little, laughed again, and stood on tiptoe to embrace him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 9 The apparition walked backward from him; and, at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that, when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.
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 It was a large house, but one of broken fortunes: for the spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their gates decayed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 12 They walked along the road, Scrooge recognising every gate, and post, and tree, until a little market-town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding river.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 13 They left the high-road by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weather-cock surmounted cupola on the roof and a bell hanging in it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 14 It is also a fact that Scrooge had seen it, night and morning, during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the City of London, even including--which is a bold word--the corporation, aldermen, and livery.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 15 The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 16 They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and have forgotten the way out again.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensGet Context In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST 17 The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney as that dull petrifaction of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone.
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