| A Budget of Christmas Tales Contributor(s): Duran, Judith (Editor), Dickens, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 1530257425 ISBN-13: 9781530257423 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2016 |
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| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 254 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Excerpt They were succeeded by a clanking noise deep down below, as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine-merchant's cellar. Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains. The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight toward his door. "It's humbug still " said Scrooge. "I won't believe it." His color changed though, when, without a pause, it came on through the heavy door, and passed into the room before his eyes. Upon its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried "I know him Marley's ghost " and fell again. The same face: the very same. The chain he drew was clasped about his middle. It was long and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. |