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Current Search - Bob in A Christmas Carol
1 As good as gold," said Bob, "and better.
2 "Why, that you were a good wife," replied Bob.
3 Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked.
4 Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
5 You would be sure of it, my dear," returned Bob, "if you saw and spoke to him.
6 On which," said Bob, "for he is the pleasantest-spoken gentleman you ever heard, I told him.
7 She hurried out to meet him; and little Bob in his comforter--he had need of it, poor fellow--came in.
8 Poor Bob sat down in it, and, when he had thought a little and composed himself, he kissed the little face.
9 Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty.
10 They entered poor Bob Cratchit's house,--the dwelling he had visited before,--and found the mother and the children seated round the fire.
11 Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring in, if obtained, full five-and-sixpence weekly.
12 "Now, it wasn't," cried Bob, "for the sake of anything he might be able to do for us, so much as for his kind way, that this was quite delightful."
13 Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.
14 Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
15 These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily.
16 So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father, with at least three feet of comforter, exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed to look seasonable; and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder.
17 Bob told them of the extraordinary kindness of Mr. Scrooge's nephew, whom he had scarcely seen but once, and who, meeting him in the street that day, and seeing that he looked a little--"just a little down, you know," said Bob, inquired what had happened to distress him.
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