Fellow readers of
A Christmas Carol, please help if you can. I've liberally referenced the dictionary, but the meanings of several passages still elude me.
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had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
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and up the stairs: slowly, too: trimming his candle as he went.
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It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks.
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cried out, 'Well done!' and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose.
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I'm 45% through the tale. Forum members willing, I'll post a few more in time.