scrooge

• 'decrease the surplus population'
• 'are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?'
• 'darkness is cheap, and scrooge liked it'
• 'i can't afford to make idle people merry'
• 'cold, bleak, biting weather'
• 'frosty rime upon his head'
• 'clear, bright, jovial'
• 'no fog'
• 'as solitary as an oyster'
• 'as merry as a school boy'
• 'buried with a stake of holly through his heart'
• 'christmas is a poor excuse to pick a man's pockets every 25th of december'
• 'i will honour christmas in all my heart'
• 'i will live in the past, the present and the future'
• 'sponge away the writing on this stone'
• 'tell me if tiny tim will live'
• 'to tiny tim, who did not die, he was a second father'
• 'will you let me in, fred?'
• 'holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate reversed'
• 'endeavour to help your struggling family'
• 'i am not the man i was'
• 'as light as a feather'
• 'laughing and crying in the same breath'
• 'solitary child, neglected by his friends'
• 'lonely boy'
• 'feeble fire'
• 'he was a second father'
• 'plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for'