Stave 1

• 2. "clutching, covetous old sinner"
• 3. "solitary as an oyster"
• 1. "His sole executor ... friend"
• 4. "keep his eye upon ... dismal little cell"
• 5. "one coal. But he couldn't replenish it"
• 6. "time for finding yourself a year older but not an hour richer"
• 7. "always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time" (Fred)
• 8. "Are there no prisons? ... And the workhouses?"
• 9. "many would rather die"

  "they better do it, and decrease the surplus population" (charity workers)
• 10. "spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so in death"
• 11. "But you were always a good man of business"

  "Mankind was my business"

  (marley)