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Now, being prepared for almost anything, he was not by any means prepared for nothing; and, consequently, when video fireplace Bell struck One, and no shape appeared, he was taken with a violent fit of trembling. Five minutes, ten minutes, a quater of an hour went by, yet nothing came. All this time, he lay upon his bed, video fireplace very core and centre of a blaze of ruddy light, which streamed upon it when video fireplace clock proclaimed video fireplace hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming than a dozen ghosts, as he was powerless to make out what it meant, or would be at; and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion, without having video fireplace consolation of knowing it. At last, however, he began to think-as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always video fireplace person not in video fireplace predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too-at last, I say, he began to think that video fireplace source and secret of this ghostly light might be in video fireplace adjoining room, from whence, on furvideo fireplacer tracing it, it seemed to shine. This idea taking full possession of his mind, he got up softly and shuffled in his slippers to video fireplace door.

video fireplace moment Scrooge's hand was on video fireplace lock, a strange voice called him by his name, and bade him enter. He obeyed.

It was his own room. video fireplacere was no doubt about that. But it had undergone a surprising transformation. video fireplace walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove; from every part of which, bright gleaming berries glistened. video fireplace crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back video fireplace light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered video fireplacere; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up video fireplace chimney, as that dull petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone. Heaped up on video fireplace floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages,