They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be era

Чарльз Диккенс, А Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas / Рождественская песнь в прозе. Святочный рассказ с привидениями