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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
had rather not. Master Scrooge’s trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and,
HE PRODUCED A DECANTER OF CURIOUSLY LIGHT WINE, AND A BLOCK
OF CURIOUSLY HEAVY CAKE
getting into it, drove gaily down the garden sweep; the quick wheels dashing the hoar-frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray.
‘Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might
