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'Christmas Stories from Household Words and All the Year Round' features 23 illustrations from Edward Dalziel.

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"I am only a common soldier, Sir," said he. "It signifies very little what such a poor brute comes to"

And when the visitor (oppressed with pie) had fallen asleep, this wicked landlord would look softly in with a lamp in one hand and a knife in the other, would cut his throat, &c

"My dear Captain Ravender," says he. "Of all the men on earth, I wanted to see you most. I was on my way to you"

"O Christian George King sar berry sorry!" says that sambo vagabond

A grizzled personage in velveteen, with a face so cut up by varieties of weather that he looked as if he had been tattooed, was found smoking a pipe at the door of a wooden house on wheels

An imperturbable and speechless man, he had sat down at his supper, with streaker present in a swoon

"Might you be married now?"asked the captain, when he had had some talk with this new acquaintance.
"Not yet."... "Going to be?" said the captain. "I hope so."

"What is your name, Sir, and where do you come from?" asked Mr. Mopes the hermit

"But it is not impossible that you are a pig!" retorted Madame Bouclet

"I am glad to see you employed," said Mr. Traveller. — "I am glad to be employed," returned the tinker

"Willing Sophy down upon her knees scrubbing early and late and ever cheerful but always smiling with a black face"

"Come Sir! Remove me to my vile dungeon. Where is my mouldy straw?"

And at last, sitting dozing against a muddy cart-wheel, I come upon the poor girl who was deaf and dumb

While I was speaking to him, I saw it open, and a man look in, who very earnestly and mysteriously beckoned to me

"I took you for some one else yesterday evening. That troubles me"

"What would you do with twopence, if I gave it you?" — "Pend it"

"Cotched the decanter out of his hand, and said, 'Put it down! I won't allow that!"

"It’s from the best corner of our best forty-five year old bin," said Mr. Wilding. "Thank you, sir," said Mr. Bintrey. "It's most excellent."

"We are famous for this growth in this vault, aren't we?"

"'If there had been a wrestle with a robber, as I dreamed,' said Obenreizer, 'You see, I was stripped for it.' 'And armed, too,' said Vendale, glancing at his girdle"

He became roused to the knowledge that_Obenreizer had set upon him, and that they were struggling desperately in the snow

At the side door of the church, are the same two men from the hospice

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