A Christmas Carol by C. Dickens

..."Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks,"My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?" No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what is was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blindmen's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as through they said, «no eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!»...