Little Classics, Τόμος 5Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 |
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Σελίδα 52
... Nance , was a well - looking body enough in her day , but such a scold , and such a dirty , muddling kind of woman , that if Jerry had n't had her , nobody else would . She set her cap at me once , did Nance ; but there ! what kind of ...
... Nance , was a well - looking body enough in her day , but such a scold , and such a dirty , muddling kind of woman , that if Jerry had n't had her , nobody else would . She set her cap at me once , did Nance ; but there ! what kind of ...
Σελίδα 53
... Nance ' ud be so very kind , I think , ma'am , as it ' ud be a very happy union . " And so it was , in Jerry's opinion ; and I suppose he was the best judge , was n't he ? Nance Jessop kept to her part in the agreement , at any rate ...
... Nance ' ud be so very kind , I think , ma'am , as it ' ud be a very happy union . " And so it was , in Jerry's opinion ; and I suppose he was the best judge , was n't he ? Nance Jessop kept to her part in the agreement , at any rate ...
Σελίδα 54
... Nance would have felt , if she'd been a different kind of woman : but as for poor Nance , she thought if she clouted them all round once or twice a day , and kept them from getting to any water , she was giving them as good an education ...
... Nance would have felt , if she'd been a different kind of woman : but as for poor Nance , she thought if she clouted them all round once or twice a day , and kept them from getting to any water , she was giving them as good an education ...
Σελίδα 59
... Nance for run- ning to pick up the clover - blooms that fell out of the wagons passing the top of the court ; no doubt it seemed very pleasant and tempting to have a bunch of sweet- smelling bluebells held out to her like that by ...
... Nance for run- ning to pick up the clover - blooms that fell out of the wagons passing the top of the court ; no doubt it seemed very pleasant and tempting to have a bunch of sweet- smelling bluebells held out to her like that by ...
Σελίδα 62
... Nance's washing - day , and you would n't be able to move for wet rags of clothes hung on lines across and across the room . It was her clean- ing day too , such cleaning as she did ; and you'd be sure to find her broke down in the ...
... Nance's washing - day , and you would n't be able to move for wet rags of clothes hung on lines across and across the room . It was her clean- ing day too , such cleaning as she did ; and you'd be sure to find her broke down in the ...
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asked began bless Bo-bo Bob Cratchit boots called candle Christmas day Christmas eve cried crust Dan Harroway dark dear door exclaimed eyes face father fellow felt fire Gadshill-in-the-Fields Geoffrey Gunn Ghost girl hand happy Harroway head hear heard heart Inmate Jacob Marley Jerry Rouse Jerry's Kenmare knees knew Lafarge laughed live looked Marley marriage master Mercy merry Christmas mind misery Miss Moriarty morning Nance Nash Navity Neal Malone Neal's never night O'Connor passed Pickersgill plase your honor poor round towers schoolmaster Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed shake singin Smilish Spirit stairs stood story sure sure as fate tailor tell there's thing thought Tibbot O'Leary Tiny Tiny Tim told Tom Nash took total depravity turned Uncle Scrooge Varuna walked wife woman word young Cratchits
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Σελίδα 7 - MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Σελίδα 91 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — lt Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Σελίδα 35 - There was nothing of high mark in this. 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 pawnbrokers.
Σελίδα 9 - ... not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will...
Σελίδα 33 - I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.
Σελίδα 32 - A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
Σελίδα 32 - Oh, a wonderful pudding ! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage.
Σελίδα 87 - You graceless whelp, what have you got there devouring ? Is it not enough that you have burnt me down three houses with your dog's tricks, and be hanged to you ! but you must be eating fire, and I know not what ? What have you got there, I say F " " O father, the pig, the pig ! do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats.
Σελίδα 28 - And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own ; and, basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies', while he (not proud, although his...
Σελίδα 37 - After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.