{"id":2765,"date":"2018-04-30T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2018-04-30T07:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T11:24:48","slug":"30apr2018-quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/30apr2018-quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"30APR2018 – Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I know.\u00a0 It’s almost May, but enjoy it anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

STAVE II:\u00a0 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The school is not quite deserted,” said the Ghost. “A
\nsolitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”<\/p>\n

Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed.<\/p>\n

They left the high-road, by a well-remembered lane, and
\nsoon approached a mansion of dull red brick, with a little
\nweathercock-surmounted cupola, on the roof, and a bell
\nhanging in it. It was a large house, but one of broken
\nfortunes; for the spacious offices were little used, their walls
\nwere damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their
\ngates decayed. Fowls clucked and strutted in the stables;
\nand the coach-houses and sheds were over-run with grass.
\nNor was it more retentive of its ancient state, within; for
\nentering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open
\ndoors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished,
\ncold, and vast. There was an earthy savour in the air, a
\nchilly bareness in the place, which associated itself somehow
\nwith too much getting up by candle-light, and not too
\nmuch to eat.<\/p>\n

They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a
\ndoor at the back of the house. It opened before them, and
\ndisclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by
\nlines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely
\nboy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down
\nupon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he
\nused to be.<\/p>\n

Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle
\nfrom the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the
\nhalf-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among
\nthe leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle
\nswinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in
\nthe fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening
\ninfluence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.<\/p>\n

The Spirit touched him on the arm, and pointed to his
\nyounger self, intent upon his reading. Suddenly a man, in
\nforeign garments: wonderfully real and distinct to look at:
\nstood outside the window, with an axe stuck in his belt, and
\nleading by the bridle an ass laden with wood.<\/p>\n

“Why, it’s Ali Baba!” Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy. “It’s
\ndear old honest Ali Baba! Yes, yes, I know! One Christmas
\ntime, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone,
\nhe did come, for the first time, just like that. Poor boy! And
\nValentine,” said Scrooge, “and his wild brother, Orson; there
\nthey go! And what’s his name, who was put down in his
\ndrawers, asleep, at the Gate of Damascus; don’t you see him!
\nAnd the Sultan’s Groom turned upside down by the Genii;
\nthere he is upon his head! Serve him right. I’m glad of it.
\nWhat business had he to be married to the Princess!”<\/p>\n

To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature
\non such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between
\nlaughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited
\nface; would have been a surprise to his business friends in
\nthe city, indeed.<\/p>\n

“There’s the Parrot!” cried Scrooge. “Green body and
\nyellow tail, with a thing like a lettuce growing out of the
\ntop of his head; there he is! Poor Robin Crusoe, he called
\nhim, when he came home again after sailing round the
\nisland. ‘Poor Robin Crusoe, where have you been, Robin
\nCrusoe?’\u00a0 The man thought he was dreaming, but he wasn’t.
\nIt was the Parrot, you know. There goes Friday, running
\nfor his life to the little creek! Halloa! Hoop! Halloo!”<\/p>\n

Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his
\nusual character, he said, in pity for his former self, “Poor
\nboy!” and cried again.<\/p>\n

“I wish,” Scrooge muttered, putting his hand in his
\npocket, and looking about him, after drying his eyes with his
\ncuff: “but it’s too late now.”<\/p>\n

“What is the matter?” asked the Spirit.<\/p>\n

“Nothing,” said Scrooge. “Nothing. There was a boy
\nsinging a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should
\nlike to have given him something: that’s all.”<\/p>\n

The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and waved its hand:
\nsaying as it did so, “Let us see another Christmas!”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

A CHRISTMAS CAROL<\/p>\n

IN PROSE
\nBEING
\nA Ghost Story of Christmas<\/p>\n

by Charles Dickens<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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