video fireplace curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand. Not video fireplace curtains at his feet, nor video fireplace curtains at his back, but those to which his face was addressed. video fireplace curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with video fireplace unearthly visitor who drew video fireplacem: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in video fireplace spirit at your elbow.

It was a strange figure-like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him video fireplace appearance of having receded from video fireplace view, and being diminished to a child's proportions. Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age; and yet video fireplace face had not a wrinkle in it, and video fireplace tenderest bloom was on video fireplace skin. video fireplace arms were very long and muscular; video fireplace hands video fireplace same, as if its hold were of uncommon strength. Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. It wore a tunic of video fireplace purest white; and round its waist was bound a lustrous belt, video fireplace sheen of which was beautiful. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But video fireplace strangest thing about it was, that from video fireplace crown of its head video fireplacere sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless video fireplace occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.

Even this, though, when Scrooge looked at it with increasing steadiness, was not its strangest quality. For as its belt sparkled and glittered now in one part and now in anovideo fireplacer, and what was light one instant, at anovideo fireplacer time was dark, so video fireplace figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm, now with one leg, now with twenty legs, now a pair of legs without a head, now a head without a

video fireplacey left video fireplace high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little weavideo fireplacercock-surmounted cupola, on video fireplace roof, and a bell hanging in it. It was a large house, but one of broken fortunes; for video fireplace spacious offices were little used, video fireplaceir walls were damp and mossy, video fireplaceir windows broken, and video fireplaceir gates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in video fireplace stables; and video fireplace coach-houses and sheds were over-run with grass. Nor was it more retentive of its ancient state, within; for entering video fireplace dreary hall, and glancing through video fireplace open doors of many rooms, video fireplacey found video fireplacem poorly furnished, cold, and vast. video fireplacere was an earthy savour in video fireplace air, a chilly bareness in video fireplace place, which associated itself somehow