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 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
 * The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.
 * Scrooge it was. I passed his office window; and as it was not shut up, and he had a candle inside, I could scarcely help seeing him.


 * 1948,, Maigret et son mort, 1990, , Paris, ISBN 2-258-00046-7; page 67.
 * Maigret s'était chargé du service. Il avait trouvé dans l'office un saucisson, des boîtes de sardines, du fromage de Hollande.