Charles Dickens' Children Stories

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Чарльз Диккенс. Charles Dickens' Children Stories

TROTTY VECK AND HIS DAUGHTER MEG

TINY TIM

LITTLE DOMBEY

THE RUNAWAY COUPLE

POOR JO!

LITTLE DORRIT

THE BLIND TOY-MAKER

LITTLE NELL

LITTLE DAVID COPPERFIELD

JENNY WREN

PIP'S ADVENTURE

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THERE was once a man who did not like Christmas. His name was Scrooge, and he was a hard sour-tempered man of business, intent only on saving and making money, and caring nothing for anyone. He paid the poor, hard-working clerk in his office as little as he could possibly get the work done for, and lived on as little as possible himself, alone, in two dismal rooms. He was never merry or comfortable, or happy, and he hated other people to be so, and that was the reason why he hated Christmas, because people will be happy at Christmas, you know, if they possibly can.

Well, it was Christmas eve, a very cold and foggy one, and Mr. Scrooge, having given his poor clerk unwilling permission to spend Christmas day at home, locked up his office and went home himself in a very bad temper. After having taken some gruel as he sat over a miserable fire in his dismal room, he got into bed, and had some wonderful and disagreeable dreams, to which we will leave him, whilst we see how Tiny Tim, the son of his poor clerk, spent Christmas day.

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Paul did not like Mrs. Pipchin, but he would sit in his arm-chair and look at her. Her ugliness seemed to fascinate him.

"I love you, Floy," he said one day to her.

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