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English, 23.06.2019 10:30 zitterkoph

Read the excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens and answer the question. scrooge has just seen the face of his dead business partner marley in the door knocker. [1] he did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall. but there was nothing on the back of the door, except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on, so he said "pooh, pooh! " and closed it with a bang. [2] the sound resounded through the house like thunder. every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own. scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. he fastened the door, and walked across the hall, and up the stairs, slowly too: trimming his candle as he went. [3] you may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young act of parliament; but i mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy. there was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom. half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with scrooge's dip. [4] up scrooge went, not caring a button for that: darkness is cheap, and scrooge liked it. but before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right. he had just enough recollection of the face to desire to do that. [5] sitting-room, bed-room, lumber-room. all as they should be. nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (scrooge has a cold in his head) upon the hob. nobody under the bed; nobody in the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. lumber-room as usual. old fire-guard, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washing-stand on three legs, and a poker. [6] quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double-locked himself in, which was not his custom. thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his night-cap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel. select the sentence from the text that builds tension by showing scrooge's sense of fear and dread. a. "every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own." (paragraph 2) b. "but before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right." (paragraph 4) c. "up scrooge went, not caring a button for that: darkness is cheap, and scrooge liked it." (paragraph 4) d. "quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double-locked himself in, which was not his custom." (paragraph 6)

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