The Haunted Man And The Ghost’s Bargain is the last of Dickens’s Christmas novels. It is about the spirit of the holiday as much as about the holiday itself.
Chapter-7 Mr. and Mrs. Tetterby were not a bit behind-hand in the warmth of their reception. They were as much attracted to her as the children were; they ran towards her, kissed her hands, pressed round her, could not receive her ardently or enthusiastically enough. She came among them like the spirit of all goodness, …
Chapter-6 Night was still heavy in the sky. On open plains, from hill-tops, and from the decks of solitary ships at sea, a distant low-lying line, that promised by-and-by to change to light, was visible in the dim horizon; but its promise was remote and doubtful, and the moon was striving with the night-clouds busily.The …
Chapter-5 “But he was a child once,” said the old man. “He played with children. Before he lay down on his bed at night, and fell into his guiltless rest, he said his prayers at his poor mother’s knee. I have seen him do it, many a time; and seen her lay his head upon …
Chapter-4 Redlaw asked these questions to attract his eyes towards himself, and with the same intent now held him by the chin, and threw his wild hair back, though he loathed to touch him. The boy watched his eyes keenly, as if he thought it needful to his own defence, not knowing what he might …
Chapter-3 Redlaw looked round, but there was nothing; and a passage now shutting out the little parlour from his view, he went on, directing his eyes before him at the way he went.“It is only since last night,” he muttered gloomily, “that I have remained shut up, and yet all things are strange to me. …
Chapter-2 “Tempter,” answered Redlaw, “whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind.”“Receive it as a proof that I am powerful,” returned the Ghost. “Hear what I …
Chapter-1 Mr. Redlaw was a professor of Chemistry. He spent a lot of time thinking about wrongs done to him in the past. One Christmas Eve, he was haunted by a spirit which was his own ghostly double, looking and dressing exactly like the professor. As the professor fell a musing in his chair alone, …
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