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'