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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	Night was still heavy in the sky. On open plains, from hill-tops, and from the decks of solitary ships at sea, a distant low-lying line, that promised bye and bye to change to light, was visible in the dim horizon; but its promise was remote and doubtful, and the moon was striving with the night-clouds busily. The shad-o w s upon Redlaw's mind suc­ceeded thick and fast to one another, and obscured its light as the night - clouds h o v e r e d
	between the moon and earth, and kept the latter veiled in dark­ness. Fitful and uncertain as the shadows which the night-clouds cast, were their concealments from him, and imperfect revelations to him ; and, like the night-clouds still, if the clear light broke