Se descorrieron esas cortinas y Scrooge, sobresaltado, se incorporó a medias, encontrándose cara a cara con el sobrenatural personaje, tan cerca de él como yo lo estoy de ti, querido lector. Y cuenta que espiritualmente estoy a tu lado.

“... in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licen…”

“A quarta-feira amanhecia quando olhei pela janela. Nas pontes, as luzes cintila…”

“No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope i…”

“I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural …”