He went to church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and fro, and patted children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of houses, and up to the windows; and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed that any walk β that anything β could give him so much happiness. β¨ A Christmas carol in prose, being a ghost story of Christmas: With original art and narration by Jon Langford.
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