A Christmas Carol: The Last of the Spirits

1066.567 - 1095.265 Keith Morrison

The cover was so carelessly adjusted that the slightest raising of it, the motion of a finger upon Scrooge's part, would have disclosed the face. He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it, but had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectre at his side. Spirit, he said, this is a fearful place. In leaving it, I shall not leave its lesson.