She prayed forgiveness the next moment , and was sorry ; but the first was the emotion of her heart . `` What the half-drunken woman , whom I told you of last night , said to me when I tried to see him and obtain a week 's delay , and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me , turns out to have been quite true . He was not only very ill , but dying , then . '' `` To whom will our debt be transferred ? '' `` I do n't know . But , before that time , we shall be ready with the money ; and , even though we were not , it would be bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor . We may sleep to-night with light hearts , Caroline ! '' Yes . Soften it as they would , their hearts were lighter . The children 's faces , hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood , were brighter ; and it was a happier house for this man 's death ! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him , caused by the event , was one of pleasure . `` Let me see some tenderness connected with a death , '' said Scrooge ; `` or that dark chamber , Spirit , which we left just now , will be for ever present to me . '' The Ghost conducted him through several streets familiar to his feet ; and , as they went along , Scrooge looked here and there to find himself , but nowhere was he to be seen . They entered poor Bob Cratchit 's house , -- the dwelling he had visited before , -- and found the mother and the children seated round the fire . Quiet . Very quiet . The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner , and sat looking up at Peter , who had a book before him . The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing . But surely they were very quiet ! '' ` And he took a child , and set him in the midst of them . ' ''
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Caroline Cratchit Cratchits Peter Scrooge Spirit fire first left week