Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T13:52:37+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Redemption| Read More
The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T13:53:29+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Darkness, Light| Read More
Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T14:36:11+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Celebration, Christmas, Happiness, Joy| Read More
He tried to say “Humbug!” but stopped at the first syllable. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T14:14:33+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Humbug, Redemption, Self-doubt| Read More
The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T16:58:13+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Places), Fog, Weather| Read More
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 forgotten the way out again. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T09:34:40+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Appearance (Places), Home, Houses| Read More
Boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T17:18:17+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Childhood, Children, Music, Past, Play, Weather| Read More
The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T17:11:08+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Church Bells, Churches, Cold, Teeth| Read More
Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T12:42:14+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Regret| Read More
Make up the fires! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T18:24:13+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fire, Generosity| Read More
The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T12:02:37+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fog, Ghosts, Weather| Read More
His mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T13:25:29+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Confused, Confusion| Read More
He became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T18:14:13+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Confused, Ghosts| Read More
Candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air. The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T18:12:09+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Fog, Pollution| Read More
May you be happy in the life you have chosen! The Circumlocution Office2022-10-07T18:19:10+01:00Categories: A Christmas Carol|Tags: Future, Life| Read More
