‘A Christmas Carol’ read by Keith Morrison
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Potential savings were vary discounts not available in all states and situations. He may just be the menus Christmas villain of all time. A man who counts money while children who Marks the sick can begrudges his most loyal friends, even the tiny st.

Bit of happiness. Oh yes. Is the og of bad guys alright? Darva or the rich hold the more now i'll rolled into one evil lump of a man.

Now I just, you wait, this nasty piece of work will get his come up and and in the most unexpected and satisfying way i'm speaking, of course, of evenest or. Screws, i'm keep now. This is season two of Morrison mysteries.

Our story is said in the eighteen forties london, england, its winter cold and bleak but it's Christmas eve, the warrant enjoy of the season of giving permeate the grave fog of the city in all places but one the tiny travelled heart of evenest er rouge as we begin screw is sitting in his office barking orders that is kind harder clerk bob crachit, who's only hoping to have Christmas day off to spend time with his family especially, is desperately ill son tiny tim.

But lower some screws, doesn't give a thought to any of that. No catch, its family means nothing to screw. And Christmas, a passing annoyance.

Waste of valuable time, yes. And mean, the screws was second to none, except just possibly do is old business partner, the greedy Jacobina. I would pinched his vast party and died seven years before the Christmas.

Each of our story, in fact, IT thoughts of marry that began Charles dickens, a Christmas carroll. Marley was did to be in with, there was no doubt whatever about that. The register of his barrier was signed by the cogent, the clerk, the undertaker, the chief manner.

Screw signed IT and score. His name was good for anything. He chose to put his hand to all. Marley was as dead as a door nail scruts.

And he were partners for, I don't know how many years screw was his sole executor, his soul administrator, his solo sign, his soul friend, and is so manner. And even screw was not so dread cut up by this sad event score never painted out. Old marley's name there had stood years afterwards above the warehouse door.

Screw and marley, sometimes people new to the business called screws. Scruton sometimes marry, but he answered to both names. IT was all the same to him all but he was at tight fisted hand of the ground, stone screws, a squeeze, ranching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covered as old singer, hard and sharp as secret and self contained and solitary is an oyster.

The coal within enclosed is old features. Nip disappinted nose travelled as cheek, stiffed as gate made. His eyes read is thin, lips blue, and spoke out true ly and his grading voice, nobody ever stopped him in the street to say with glad and looks, my dear screw, how are you? When will you come to see me?

No beggars employed him to be stoa trifle. No children asked him what IT was o clock. No man or woman ever, once in all his life, inquire the way as such, in such a place of charge.

But what did crude care? IT was a very thing. He liked the wedges way along the crowded past of life, warning all human sympathy or keep its distance.

Once upon a time of all the good days of the year on Christmas eve, all screws SAT busy in his counting house, IT was cold, leak, biting, weather foggy, and he could hear the people in the court outside go wizen up and down, beating their hands up on their breast and stamp their feet upon the pavement stones to warm. The city clock had only just gone three, but IT was quite dark already. And can goes referring in the windows of the neighbor offices, like ready smears upon the palpable Brown air.

The fog came boring in at every chicken o and was so dense that although the court, the narrowest the house is opposite, were mere phantoms, the door, a screw just counting house, was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk who, and a dismal al little cell beyond was copying letters, grew at a very small fire. But the clerk fire was so very much smaller that IT looked like one coal, but he couldn't reply to ship for screws, kept the coal box in his own room. Therefore, the clerk was on his White comforter and tried to warm himself at the candle in whichever t not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.

A merry Christmas uncle god, save you credit. Cheerful voice he was the voice of crush. Nehemoth came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach, bah said.

Crude humbug. He had so heated himself as a rapid walking in the fog and frost this neu's scruggs that he was all a glow is face with ruddy and handsome. His eyes Sparkled.

Christmas, a humble uncle said, screw is not for you. You don't mean that. I'm sure I do. That screws merry Christmas.

What right of you to be marry? But reason have you to be married? Y, you're poor enough. Come then. Return the fu.

Gi, what right of you to be dismal? Al, what reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough through having no Better answer.

Ready on the spur of the moment, said bow again and followed up with a body. Don't be cross up to the what I was gonna return. The uncle, when I live in such a world of fools, is this merry Christmas outbreak.

Merry Christmas. What's Christmas time to you? But the time for paying bills without money, the time for finding yourself a year older, but not an our richer if I get worked my will that crude and digits.

Every idiot who goes about with merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with putting and buried with the stake of holly's room, his heart he should ucl pleaded the nepal, nepal. But turn the eco sterling. Keep Christmas in your own way and let me keep them in mind. But I ve always thought of Christmas.

So then, if you, as a good time, kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time, the only time I know up in the long calendar of the year when men and women, seen by one, consent, to open their shut up parts freely, to think of people below them as if they really were a fellow passenger to the grave, and not just another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though IT has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe it's done me good and will do me good. And I say, god blessed.

The clerk involuntarily exploded and then becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety. He poke the fire and extinguished the last frayed Spark forever. Let me hear another song from you that grow, and you'll keep your Christmas by losing your situation.

Don't be angry. Uncle, come dine with us tomorrow. So then if you, why did you get married? That's scrut. Because I fell in love, because you fell in love grounds group, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas. Good afternoon.

No uncle, but you never came to see maybe that happen when I give IT as a reason for not coming now. Good afternoon. It's crude.

I want nothing from you. I asked nothing of you. Why can we be friends? Good afternoon. That crude. I am sorry with all my heart to find you so resolute.

We've never had any quarrel to a job in a party, but i've made the trial and amad to Christmas, and i'll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So a merry Christmas uncle. Good afternoon that's crude and a happy new year good afternoon that's crude.

Is if you left the room without an angry word, not was standing. He stopped to the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk who, cold as he was, was warmer than screws for he returned them cordially. I was another fellow, but its crude overheard him.

My car was fifteen shillings a week and a wife from family talking about a merry Christmas. The clerk in letting through just let you out that that two other people in they were populate, gentleman, pleasant to behold, and now stood with their hats off and scooters office. They had books and papers in their hands, and they bowed to him, screwed in malley, I believe, said one of the gentleman referred to his list, have either pleasure of addressing this scrub or mr.

Mari, mister marlies, man, death in seven years screen. He died seven years ago, this very night at this festive season of the year, mr. Code said the gentleman taking up a pen IT is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and the destitute, who ofer greatly.

At the present time, many thousands are in want of common necessities. Hundreds of thousands are in want of common comfort. Sir, are there no prisons as scrooge of plenty of prisoners, said the gentleman, ying down the pen again, and the union work causes demanded groups.

Are they still in Operation? They are still return. The gentleman, I wish I could say they were not. A few of us are endearing to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink and means of warmth. We choose this time because it's a time of all others when want is keenly felt and abundance.

Rejoices, what should I put you down for? Nothing through, replied, but you wish to be, I wish, be left alone. That scrut, since you ask me what I wish, gentleman, that is my answer.

I don't make myself marry at Christmas, and I got afford to make idle people marry. I helped to support the establishment. I have mentioned that they cost enough so you're badly off, must go there.

No money can go there, and many would rather die. If they would rather die such crude, they Better do IT and decreased the surplus population. It's not my business.

It's enough for a man to understand his own business and not to interfere with other people's mine occupies be constantly good afternoon, gentleman. Seeing clearly that IT would be useless to pursue their point, the gentleman withdrew. Meanwhile, the fog and darkness sticker, the coal became intense, piercing, searching, biting cold.

The owner of one cold Young nose step down the scooters keyhole to reale him with a Christmas Carol with the verse sound of god bless you married gentleman let nothing you display screw seized the ruler was such an energy of action that the singer flooded terror, leaving the key hole to the fog in the frost head length the hour of shutting up the counting house arrived with the nail wheel scrooge dismounted from his stool anta stanly admitted the fact of the expectant clerk who instantly snuffed candle out and put on his hat, you are all day tomorrow I suppose that's rude if quite convenient, sir. It's not convenient. That's code and it's not fair.

If I was to stop half a crown for IT, you'd think yourself you'll use, you'll be bound good smile thinky. And yet such crude you don't think me, i'll use when I pay a day's wages for no work. Clerk observed that that was only once a year, a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty fifth december, says crude button is great coat to the chin, but I suppose you must have the whole day be here all the earlier the next morning, the clerk promised that he would, and screwed, walked out of the ground.

And so kindly bob cratchit has been given Christmas day off and rush his home to be with his family. Two is also on his way home miserable as ever, but if he thinks Christmas has made him unhappy, well, he has no idea.

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Scrut took his his melancholie dinner in his usual mellon collie tam, and, having read all the newspapers and the guy of the rest of the eaten with his bankers book, went home to bed. He lived in chAmbers, which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy, sweet of rooms in the lowering pile of building up a yard where IT had so little business to be that one could scarcely help.

Fancy IT must have run there when I was a Young house, playing hide and seek with other houses and forgotten the way out again. IT was old enough now and jury enough when nobody lived in IT. But crude yard is so dark that even screws.

They knew it's every stone was fained a group with his hands. The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house that IT seemed as if the genius of the weather SAT in mortal meditation. On the now is a fact that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door except that IT was very large.

It's also a fact that scrooge had seen night and morning during his whole residency in that place that would also be born in mind. That coach had not restored one thought on mari since his last mention of his seven years dead partner that afternoon. And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how would happen that scruts having his key in the lock of the door saw in the knocker without its undergoing any intermediate process of change? Not a occur, but maris face.

IT was not an inpenetrable shadow as the other objects on the art world, but at a dismal light about IT IT was not angry or ferocious, but looked at screwed as marley used to look with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead the hair was curiously stared, as if my breath or hot hair. And though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless. That and its livid color made IT horrible.

As groups looked fixed at this phenomenon, IT was a knocker again to say that he was not startled or that his blood was not conscious of a terrible sensation would be untrue. But he put his hand upon the key he had relinquished, turned IT thirdly, walked in and lighted his candle. He did pause for the moments irresolution before he shut the door.

And he did look cautious ously behind the first, as if he have expected to be terrified with the side of mary's big tails sticking out and of the hall. But there was nothing on the back of the door except the screws and nuts that held the knocked on huo and closed IT with a bang. The sound presented through the house by thunder.

The screws was not a man to be frightened by echoes e fashion the door and walked across the hall and up the stairs slowly too, trimming his candle as he went, darkness is cheap and school like that. But he walked to his room to see that all was right. He had just enough recollection of the face to desire to do that.

Sitting room, bedroom number room, or as they should be, nobody under the table. Nobody ended the sa a small fire in the great spoon and basin ready, and the little saw span of rule upon the stove, nobody under the bed, nobody in the closet, nobody in his dressing gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. Quite satisfied, he closed his door and locked himself in, double locked himself in, which was not as custom, thus secured against surprise.

He took off his curvet, but on his dressing down and strippers and his nike cap and SAT down before the fire to take his rule. IT was a very low fire indeed. Nothing on such a bitter night.

He was obliged to sit close to IT and root over IT before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel. The fireplace was an old one built by some dutch merchant long ago, and believed all the way round with quint dutch tiles designed to illustrate the scriptures. There were canes and abbes and faeroes daughters, queens of shiba, hundreds of figures to attract his thoughts.

And yet that face of marley seven years did came like the ancient profits road, and swallow up the whole i'm bug such crude and walk across the room. After several turns, he SAT down again as he threw his head back in the chair. His gLance happened to rest upon a bell, a discuses bell that hung in the room.

IT was with great astonishment now, and with a strange, inexplicable dread that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing. It's one so softly in the outset that is scarcely made a sound. But soon a rang out loudly and so did every bell in the house.

This might have lasted half a minute or a minute, but that seemed an hour. The bell seized as they had begun together. They were succeeded by a line noise deep down below, as if some person were dragging a heavy chain.

The sell door flew open with the bombing sound, and then he heard the noise much louder on the forest below, then coming up the stairs, then coming straight toward his door. It's humberg still as rouge. I won't believe IT is color change though.

When without a pause, IT came on through the heavy door and passed into the room before his eyes, upon it's coming in the dying flame lead up as though he cried, I know him miles ghost fell again, the same face, the very sad marlie in his big tail whisker, tights and boots. The chain he drew was cashed about his middle IT was long and wounded about him like a tail, and IT was made for screws, observed the closely of cash boxes, keys, peos, ledger deeds and heavy purses, rot and steel. His body was transparent so that scrooge, observing him and looking through his waist e coat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind, though he looked to fat him through and through and saw its standing before him.

Though he felt the chilling influence of its death codiss, he was still incredulous and fought against his sensors. How now its groups, costive and code is ever, what do you want with me much? Mary's voice, no doubt, about IT.

Who are you? Ask me who I was. Who were you then? That's crude.

Raising his voice in life. I was your partner. Jacon marly.

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Chroma, eve and devaney, or sport, is face to face with a ghost of his old partner jacon. Morally, the ghost is weighed down with the prophet oia. There are greedy money lending business.

All ledges, money boxes and pado and keys. In life, mary had been every bit as cheap and nasty est groups. What could he want now in death? Our story continues. Could you sit down as roots looking doubtful at him?

I can do IT then rouge asked the question because he didn't know whether a goes so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair, and felt that in the event of its being impossible, IT might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation. But the goal SAT down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as if he was quite used to IT. You don't believe in may.

Observe the ghost. I don't that crude. What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses? I don't know that screwed.

Why do you doubted? Because that's huge. A little thing affects them. A slight disorder. The stomach makes them cheat. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot at mastering a com of cheese. A fragment of an underdone potato is more of gravy than a grave about you, whatever you are.

Trudy was not much in the habit of cracking king jokes, nor did he fail in his heart by any means. What finish then? The truth is that he tried to be smart as a means of distracting his own attention and keeping down his terror, but the ghost voice disturb bed the very marrow of his bones.

To sit staring at those fixed plays, eyes in silents for a moment would play school d felt the very duced with him. There was something very awful too, in the spector being provided with an infernal atmosphere of his own screws could not feel IT himself. But this was clearly the case for though the ghost that perfectly motionless, it's hair and skirts and tasks role, still agitated, is IT by the hot vapor.

From an of them. You see this toothpick, this crude, returning quickly to the charge. For the reason, just assign and wishing though we were only for a second to divert divisions stony gaze from himself.

I do apply the ghost. You're not looking at IT that's crew. But I see IT. Something goes not for standing well, returns crude. I have to be, swallow this and be, for the rest of my days, persecuted by a legion of goblin's, all of my own creation hub. G, I tell you, humbug.

The spirit raised a frightful crime and shook tz chain was such a dismal at a polling noise that rude, held on tight to his chair to save himself from falling in this room. But how much greater was his horror when the phantom taking off the bandage around its head? As if IT worked too warm to wear indoors, its lower job dropped down upon its screw, fell up on his knees and clasp his hands before his face.

mercy. He said, dreadful Operation. Why do you trouble me? Man of the world in mind applied the ghost.

Do you believe the name or not? I do such crude. I must.

But why do spirits walk the earth? And why do they come to me? IT is required of every man. The ghost return to the spirit within him should walk abroad among his follow man and travel far and wide. And if that spirit does not go forth in life, IT is condemned to do so after death.

IT is doomed to wonder through the world, oh, ows me and witness what I cannot share but might have shared on earth and turned the happiness again. The spector raged to cry and shock its chain and rung its shawe home. You are feared that crude.

Jump in. Tell me why I awar the chain. I've forged dinner life, replied the ghost. I made IT link by link and yard by yard. I grated IT on of my own free will and of my own free will.

I word, is IT pattern strange due to trembled more and more? Or would you know pursuit the goes, the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? IT was full as heavy.

And as long as this seven Christmas eves ago, you have labor on IT. Since it's a ponderous gene. Gw gLanced about him on the floor in the expectation of finding himself surrounded by some fifty year or sixty thousand years of our cable.

But he could see nothing, Jacob, he said, impLoringly, oh, Jacobs, tell me more. Speak comfort to me. Jacobi, have none to give to ghost lied.

I cannot rest. I cannot stay. I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never walked beyond. Our counting house Sparked me in my life. My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing ole and very journeys lie before me. IT was a habit.

The scrut, whenever he became thoughtful to put his hands in his pants pockets, wonnerful on what the ghost and said he did so now, but without lifting up his eyes or getting off his knees, you must have been very slow about IT, Jacobs observed, in a business like manner, though, with humility and difference, slow the goes, repeated seven years dead. You score and traveling all the time, the whole time at the ghost. No rest.

No peace in session. Torture of remorse. Oh, kept bound and double iron by the phantom.

No space of regret can make immense for one's life. Opportunity missed yet. Such was I, O, such as I.

But you were always a good man of business. Take a fault. scruts.

We now began to apply this to himself. Business by the ghost. Bring his hands again.

Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business. Charity mercy for parents and beneficence were all all my business.

The dealings of my trade were but the drop of water in the comprehension ocean of my business. IT held up. It's changed at arms, like as if that were the cause of all it's undeserving grief.

And fung IT heavily on the ground again at this time of the rolling year to go, said, I suffer most. Why did I walk you across the fellow beings with my eyes turned down and never raised them to that blessed star which LED the wise man to a poor a boat. Whether no poor homes to which it's like would have conducted me crude was very much just made to hear the spector going on at this rate and began to quick exceedingly here, be great.

The ghost. My time is nearly gone. I will said crude, but don't be hard upon me. Don't be flourish.

I could pray, how is IT that I appear before you in a shape you can see? I may not tell I have that invisible beside you many and many a day. IT is not the greek idea scrouged vee, and wait the perspiration his Brown.

I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate, a chance and hope of my procuring albanese. A, you were always a good friend to me, says, gw, thank you. You will be haunted.

Resumed the ghost by three spirits. Screw just contents fell almost as low as the ghosts had done. Is that the chance and hope you will mention Jacob, he demanded in a faltering voice.

IT is, I think i'd rather not such googe without their visit at the ghost. You cannot hope to share the path. I expect the first tomorrow.

When the bell told one one, couldn't I take them all at once and have IT over and its crude, they expect the second on the next night, the same hour, the third upon the next night, when the last stroke twelve, the season of vibrate, look to see me no more. And look that for your own sake, you remember what is passed between us. When IT had said these words, the spector took its wrapper from the table and bound IT round its head as before.

Screws knew this by the smart sound its teeth made, and the jaws were brought together by the bandage eventually to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude. With its chain wound over and about its ARM, the Operation walked backward from him. And at every step I took the window, raised itself a little so that when the ghost reached IT was wide open, hit back and screws to approach, which he did when they were within two paces of each other, marley's ghost held up a hand, warning him to come no nearer screen, stopped not so much in obedience as in surprise and fear.

For on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air, incoherent sounds of lamentation, no regret, t. WAilings and expressively sara for and self accused of the structure after listening for a moment, joined in the morning for dig and floated out on the dark night crew followed to the window. Desperation is jurist sy and looked out the air was full with fantoms wandering hither and there's and rest as haste and mooning as they went.

Every one of them more change like mars ghost. Some few they might be guilty. Governments were linked together. None of free.

Many had been personally known discrete in their lives he had been quite familiar with one old ghost in a White waste coat with a monstrous iron safe attached to his uncle who cried previously had being unable to assist a record woman with an infant who mts. Saw below upon a doorstep. The misery with them all was clearly that they sought to interfere for good in human matters and had lost the power forever.

Whether these creatures faded in the mister, mister shoud of them, he could not tell, but they and their spirit voices faded together. And the night became as IT had been when he walked home screen sed the window, an exam of the door by which the ghost to dented IT was double locked as he had locked with his own hand. And the boats were undisturbed, tried to say a bug, but stopped at the first syllable. And being from the emotion had undergone, whether the tigers of the day or his glimpse of the invisible world, or the dell conversation of the ghost or the late ness of the hour, much in need of, he went straight debate without and dressing and furiously upon the incident.

Exhausted by his ghostly encounters, crude has collapsed in the bed. You'll need his rest, because the most stubbly mean men. And all of london is about to take a journey to a terrible place, his own life, to follow that journey. And here, the rest of a Christmas Carol, just search morus and mysteries wherever you get your podcast. And thank you for listening.

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