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Hello, I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a bonus episode of Happier with Gretchen Rubin.

Charles Dickens' Timeless Masterpiece, A Christmas Carol.

In the last episode, I read the first half of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Here I finished that timeless story.

Steve III, The Second of the Three Spirits.

Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together,

Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of one.

He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time for the special purpose of holding a conference

with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.

But, finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new specter would draw back.

He put them everyone aside with his own hands and lying down again, established a good look out all around the bed.

For he wished to challenge the spirit on the moment of its appearance and did not wish to be taken by surprise and made nervous.

Gentlemen of the free and easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with O'Moover 2 and being usually equal to the time of day,

express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch and toss to manslaughter.

Between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.

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