stave 4

• "it shrouded in a deep black garment"
• "its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread"
• "I fear you more then any spectre I have seen"-scrooge
• "I thought he'd never die"-business man
• "its likely to be a very cheap funeral"-business man
• "I don't mind going if a lunch is provided"-business man
• "old scratch has got his own at last, hey?"-business man
• "the whole quarter reeked with crime and misery"
• "a wicked old screw"-a woman
• "you don't mean to say you took em down, rings and all, with him lying there?"-old joe
• "its the best he had, and a fine one too"-woman
• "scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror"
• "he frightened everyone away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead"-woman
• "merciful heaven what is this!"-scrooge
• "but I have not the power spirit. I have not the power"-scrooge
• "plundered, bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man"
• "who feels emotion caused by this mans death"-scrooge
• "his face was care-worn and depressed though he was young"
• "she was thankful in her soul to hear it"
• "merciless a creditor in his successor"-Carolines husband
• "its was a happier house for this mans death"
• "let me see some tenderness connected with a death"-scrooge
• "the noisy little cratchits were still as statues in one corner"
• "the colour hurts my eyes"-mrs cratchit
• "but I think he has walked a little slower than he used, these few last evenings, mother"-peter
• "im sure none of us will forget tiny Tim"-bob cratchit
• "are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they the shadows of the things that may be, only?"-scrooge
• "scrooge crept towards it"
• "I am not the man I once was"-scrooge
• "I will honour christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year"-scrooge
• "I will live in the past, the present, and the future...I will not shut out any lessons that they teach"-scrooge
• "oh tell me i may sponge away the writing on this stone"-scrooge