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The Holly-Tree

by Charles Dickens

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Christmas storiesEnglish fiction

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  1. 01Front matter~1 min
  2. 02First Branch—Myself — part 1~25 min
  3. 03First Branch—Myself — part 2~19 min
  4. 04First Branch—Myself — part 3~10 min
  5. 05SECOND BRANCH--THE BOOTS — part 1~25 min
  6. 06SECOND BRANCH--THE BOOTS — part 2~2 min
  7. 07THIRD BRANCH--THE BILL~8 min

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I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now. I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or received, the innumerable social evasions I have been guilty of, solely because I am by original constitution and character a bashful man. But I will leave the reader unmoved, and proceed with the object before me.

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