Dickens's Christmas Books - complete online versions

The Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Cricket On the Hearth, Battle Of Life
& The Haunted Man & the Ghosts's Bargain with Illustrations.

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	294	THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
	breeze arose that made the leaves and berries dance upon the wall, as they had often done upon the trees; and rustled in the room as if an invisible company of fairies, treading in the footsteps of the
	good substantial revellers, were whirling after them. Now too, no feature of the Doctor's face could be distinguished as he spun and spun ; and now there seemed a dozen Birds of Paradise in fitful flight; and now there were a thousand little bells at work; and