What, exclaimed the Ghost, would you so soon
put out, with worldly hands, the light I give? …. [T]hough 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.
--Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol,
Stave 2
Image source: John Leach, Scrooge Extinguishes the First of the Three Spirits, steel engraving, 1843. Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham. (http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/carol/4.html)
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