Excerpt from A Christmas Carol

The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open, that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who; in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room and so surely as the clerk came in with the shove] the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at 'the candle; in which e?'ort, not being a. Man of a strong imagination, he failed.

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