Cards (16)

  • “Are there no prisons?“ asked Scrooge… ”And the Union Workhouses?”
  • “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge “then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population!“
  • No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him
  • A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still
  • Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!
  • But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time
  • “I see a vacant seat,” replied the ghost, “in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the future, the child will die.”
  • “No, no,” said Scrooge, “Oh no, kind Spirit! Say he will be spared.”
  • “But most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see written Doom, unless the writing is erased.”
  • “My little, little child!” cried Bob. “My little child!”
  • “Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe,”Hear me! I am not the man I was!” For the first time, the hand appeared to shake.
  • “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the future!” Scrooge repeated
  • “Not a farthing less. A great many back-payments are including in it, I assure you. Will you do me that favour?”
  • Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.
  • “And therefore I am about to raise your salary!”
  • “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody!”