"I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world."
Charles Dickens · A Christmas Carol
Toasts, celebration & friendship
“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in…”
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Work
- A Christmas Carol
- Year
- 1843
- Chapter / part
- Stave V
- Length
- 67 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #46
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