Tut , do n't I know ? '' she added in the same breath , laughing as he laughed . `` Mr. Scrooge . '' `` Mr. Scrooge it was . I passed his office window ; and as it was not shut up , and he had a candle inside , I could scarcely help seeing him . His partner lies upon the point of death , I hear ; and there he sat alone . Quite alone in the world , I do believe . '' `` Spirit ! '' said Scrooge in a broken voice , `` remove me from this place . '' `` I told you these were shadows of the things that have been , '' said the Ghost . `` That they are what they are , do not blame me ! '' `` Remove me ! '' Scrooge exclaimed . `` I can not bear it ! '' He turned upon the Ghost , and seeing that it looked upon him with a face in which in some strange way there were fragments of all the faces it had shown him , wrestled with it . `` Leave me ! Take me back ! Haunt me no longer ! '' In the struggle -- if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost , with no visible resistance on its own part , was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary -- Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright ; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him , he seized the extinguisher cap , and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head . The Spirit dropped beneath it , so that the extinguisher covered its whole form ; but , though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force , he could not hide the light , which streamed from under it in an unbroken flood upon the ground .
He was conscious of being exhausted , and overcome XXXXX an irresistible drowsiness ; and , further , of being in his own bedroom .
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