The Chimes (illustrated)

Toby Veck and his daughter Meg live a hardscrabble and miserable life. The servant tries in vain to get a job in order to get some wages. Only the bells of the nearby church tower seem to be his friends. But on New Year's Eve they show their true faces and bring a dream to him: Toby Veck is dead, and as a ghost he sees his daughter's future.