What message does the Ghost of Christmas present bring Ebenezer Scrooge from beyond the grave?

Charles Dickens, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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A Christmas Carol, Part 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 spectre would draw back.

He put them every one aside with his own hands, and lying down again, established a sharp

lookout all round the bed, where he wished to challenge the spirit on the moment of its appearance,

and did not wish to be taken by surprise and made nervous.

A gentleman of the free and easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move

or two, and being usually equal to the time of day, expressed the wide range of their capacity

for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch and

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