A Christmas Carol

I wear the chain I forged in life,’

a little thing affects them

waistcoat, tights, and boots; the tassels on the latter bristling, like his pig-tail, and his coat-skirts, and the hair upon his head

The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound

Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.

bell begin to swing. It swung so softly in the outset that it scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house

livid colour, made it horrible

not angry or ferocious

like a bad lobster in a dark cellar

not a knocker, but Marley’s face