It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew 's , and to find himself in a bright , dry , gleaming room , with the Spirit standing smiling by his side , and looking at that same nephew with approving affability ! `` Ha , ha ! '' laughed Scrooge 's nephew . `` Ha , ha , ha ! '' If you should happen , by any unlikely chance , to know a man more blessed in a laugh than Scrooge 's nephew , all I can say is , I should like to know him too . Introduce him to me , and I 'll cultivate his acquaintance . It is a fair , even-handed , noble adjustment of things , that , while there is infection in disease and sorrow , there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour . When Scrooge 's nephew laughed in this way , holding his sides , rolling his head , and twisting his face into the most extravagant contortions , Scrooge 's niece , by marriage , laughed as heartily as he . And their assembled friends , being not a bit behindhand , roared out lustily . `` Ha , ha ! Ha , ha , ha , ha ! '' `` He said that Christmas was a humbug , as I live ! '' cried Scrooge 's nephew . `` He believed it , too ! '' `` More shame for him , Fred ! '' said Scrooge 's niece indignantly . Bless those women ! they never do anything by halves . They are always in earnest . She was very pretty ; exceedingly pretty .
With a dimpled , surprised-looking , capital face ; a ripe little mouth , that seemed made to be kissed -- as no doubt it was ; all kinds of good little dots about her chin , that melted into one another when she laughed ; and the sunniest pair XXXXX eyes you ever saw in any little creature 's head .
If as by for in into of that to while