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| Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1999) Feature | ||||||||||||||
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"At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress. He sat down to the dinner that had been boarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer. 'Is it good.' she said, 'or bad?' -- to help him. 'Bad,' he answered. 'We are quite ruined.' 'No. There is hope yet, Caroline.' 'If he relents,' she said, amazed, 'there is. Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has happened.' 'He is past relenting,' said her husband. 'He is dead.' She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands. She prayed forgiveness the next moment, and was sorry; but the first was the emotion of her heart." - A Christmas Carol, Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits |
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