said Scrooge , `` show me no more ! Conduct me home . Why do you delight to torture me ? '' `` One shadow more ! '' exclaimed the Ghost . `` No more ! '' cried Scrooge . `` No more ! I do n't wish to see it . Show me no more ! '' But the relentless Ghost pinioned him in both his arms , and forced him to observe what happened next . They were in another scene and place ; a room , not very large or handsome , but full of comfort . Near to the winter fire sat a beautiful young girl , so like that last that Scrooge believed it was the same , until he saw her , now a comely matron , sitting opposite her daughter . The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous , for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count ; and , unlike the celebrated herd in the poem , they were not forty children conducting themselves like one , but every child was conducting itself like forty . The consequences were uproarious beyond belief ; but no one seemed to care ; on the contrary , the mother and daughter laughed heartily , and enjoyed it very much ; and the latter , soon beginning to mingle in the sports , got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly . What would I not have given to be one of them ! Though I never could have been so rude , no , no ! I would n't for the wealth of all the world have crushed that braided hair , and torn it down ; and , for the precious little shoe , I would n't have plucked it off , God bless my soul ! to save my life . As to measuring her waist in sport , as they did , bold young brood , I could n't have done it ; I should have expected my arm to have grown round it for a punishment , and never come straight again .
And yet I should have dearly liked , I own , to have touched her lips ; to have questioned her , that she might have opened them ; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes , and never raised a blush ; to have let loose waves of hair , an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price : in short , I should have liked , I do confess , to have had the lightest licence of a child , and yet to have been man enough XXXXX know its value .
Though beyond brigands for in of on that to torture