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Current Search - Rather in A Christmas Carol
1 "I--I think I'd rather not," said Scrooge.
2 "Past it rather," Peter answered, shutting up his book.
3 If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
4 They scarcely seemed to enter the City; for the City rather seemed to spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act.
5 That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face, and beyond its control, rather than a part of its own expression.
6 Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
7 Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but, if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.