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 by an irresistible drowsiness ; and , further , of being in his own bedroom . He gave the cap a parting squeeze , in which his hand relaxed ; and had barely time to reel to bed before he sank into a heavy sleep . STAVE THREE THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore , and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together , Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One . He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time , for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger dispatched to him through Jacob Marley 's intervention . But , finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back , he put them every one aside with his own hands , and , lying down again , established a sharp look-out all round the bed . For he wished to challenge the Spirit on the moment of its appearance , and did not wish to be taken by surprise and made nervous .
Gentlemen XXXXX the free-and-easy sort , who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two , and being usually equal to the time of day , express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter ; between which opposite extremes , no doubt , there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects .
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