Stave 4

Created by

Harry Clough

Cards (29)

'It's likely to be a cheap funeral... for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it'
'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. (...) Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!'
'Why show me this, if I am past all hope?'
'I will honour Christmas in my heart'
'He'd have somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying, gasping out his last there, alone by himself'
'If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?'
'The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached'
'It seemed to scatter gloom and mystery'
'Ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him'
'I hope to live to be another man from what I was'
'"Lead on!" (...) "Lead on! (...) Lead on, Spirit!"'
'"Old Scratch has got his own at last, hey?'"
'Nor could he think of anybody immediately connected with himself'
'Unseen Eyes were looking at him very keenly. It made him shudder, and feel very cold'
'The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly'
'The whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery'
'Wicked old screw'
'The case of this unhappy man might be my own'
'Plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man'
'A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearthstone'
'Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has happened'
'The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure'
'Quiet. Very quiet'
'It would have done you good to see how green a place it is'
'I am sure we shall none of us forget poor Tiny Tim'
'Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation's death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place!'
'Read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, EBENEZER SCROOGE'
'Why show me this, if I am past all hope?" For the first time, the hand appeared to shake'
'The kind hand trembled'