family

• cratchitts: 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears- God bless us!'
• tiny tim: 'withered little hand'
• tiny tim: 'plaintive little voice'
• bob: 'the founder of the feast'
• 'monstrous shirt-collar + brave in ribbons.'
• 'his sole executor (..) sole legatee (..) sole friend, sole mourner.'
• 'Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone!'
• 'no children asked him what time it was o'clock.'
• 'The cold within him froze his old features.'
• 'nobody ever stopped him in the street.'
• 'unwatched, unwept, uncared for.'
• 'a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!'
• 'a tremendous family to provide for!'
• (ghost of present) 'Come in! And know me better.'
• 'said Mrs Cratchitt, kissing her a dozen times'
• (stave last) 'overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation’s death, not life'
• 'the spirit stood beside sick beds/foreign lands/struggling men/poverty, and it was rich.'
• 'in misery's every refuge.'