Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol quotes
"In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago."
That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
"In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago."