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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	AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN.                           399
	Mrs. Tetterby, in a whirlwind of laughing and crying, caught his face within her hands, and held it there. " Oh, Dolf! n she cried. " I am so happy that you thought so; I am so grateful that you thought so ! For I thought that you were common-looking, Dolf; and so you are, my dear, and may you be the commonest of all sights in my eyes, till you close them with your own good hands. I thought that you were small; and so you are, and I'll make much of you because you are, and more of
	you because I love my husband. I thought that you began to stoop; and so you do, and you shall lean on me, and I'll do all I can to keep you up. I thought there was no air about you; but there is, and it's the air of home, and that's the purest and the best there is, and God bless home once more, and all belonging to it, Dolf!" " Hurrah ! Here's Mrs. William ! " cried Johnny. So she was, and all the children with her; and as she came in, they kissed her, and kissed one another, and kissed the baby, and