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Andrew's avatar

"Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed."

"The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever."

"Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first."

Non-stop jokes. 30 Rock-levels of joke volume.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

"The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole...the houses opposite were mere phantoms".

It foreshadows the lengthier depiction of the fog in "Bleak House".

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