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    • Scrooge Stave 1
      • Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change
      • His sole friend, and sole mourner
      • Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!
      • A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
      • Hard and sharp as flint
      • Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster
      • The cold within him froze his old features [...] shrivelled his cheek [...] mad his eyes red
      • He carried his own low temperature always about with him
      • External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge
      • Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him
      • A time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer
    • Scrooge Stave 1 (part 2)
      • loosing your situation
      • "Because you fell in love" growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas
      • (repetition of) Good-afternoon!
      • My clerk, with fifteen shillings a week
      • Are there no prisons? [...] And the union workhouses
      • I can't afford to make idle people merry
      • If they would rather die [...] they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
      • Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it
      • But you were always a good man of business, Jacob
    • Scrooge Stave 2
      • He was endeavoring to pierce the dark with his ferret eyes
      • "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still" Scrooge said he knew it. And he sobbed
      • A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be
      • There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that's all
      • Dear brother! [...] to bring you home, home, home!
      • Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home's like heaven
      • Who glared on Master Scrooge with ferocious condescension
    • Scrooge Stave 2 (part 2)
      • No. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now. That's all
      • It had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice
      • He was not alone, but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning dress
      • Why do you delight to torture me
      • Just in time to greet the father [..] scaling him [...] with irrepressible affection!
      • His sight grew very dim indeed
      • Seized the extinguisher cap
      • Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light, which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground
    • Scrooge Stave 3
      • Scrooge entered timidly and hung his head
      • Tonight if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it
      • Scrooge hung his head [...] and was overcome with penitence and grief
      • Scrooge stared back appaled
    • Scrooge Stave 4
      • Scrooge bent down upon his knee
      • Feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him
      • Unwatched, unwept, uncared for
      • Neglected grave
      • If there is any person in the town who feels emotion caused by this man's death
      • No, Spirit! Oh no, no!
      • I am not the man I was
      • He fell before it
      • I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year
      • I will live in the past, the present and the future
      • Holding up his hands in a last prayer to have his fate reversed
    • Scrooge Stave 5
      • I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody!
      • I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby
      • Chuckle (repetition)
      • He looked so irresistibly pleasant
      • He went to church
      • Questioned beggars
      • Will you let me in, Fred
      • Raise your salary! [...] Bob trembled
      • Make up the fires and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i
      • And to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father
      • He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew
      • His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him
      • He had no further intercourse with spirits
    • Stave 1
      • Marley was dead, to begin with
      • Biting weather; foggy withal
      • The fog came pouring in
      • Fog and darkness thickened
      • The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge [...] became invisible
      • Very low fire
      • Disused bell [...] scarcely made a sound; but soon it rang loudly
    • Stave 2
      • The crisp air laughed to hear it
      • Light win [...] heavy cake
      • She died a woman
      • Fuel was heaped upon the fire (Fezziwig)
      • Sat down with her and her mother at his own fireside
    • Stave 3
      • Blaze of ruddy light, which streamed
      • That made the chamber dim with their delicious steam
      • Solitary lighthouse
    • Stave 4
      • The whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery
      • to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!
    • Stave 5
      • No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold
      • Merry bells
      • Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness!
    • Marley
      • Dismal light about it (Marley's face), like a bad lobster in a dark cellar
      • The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air
      • Of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel
      • Felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes
      • I wear the chain I forged in life [...] I made it link by link and yard by yard
      • Incessant torture of remorse
      • Mortal life too short
      • Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business
    • Bob
      • Dismal little cell
      • Clerk's fire was so very much smaller [...] one coal
      • Warm himself at the candle
      • Hugged his daughter to his heart's content
      • Trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty
      • Mr Scrooge, the founder of the feast
      • Dreaded that he might be taken from him
      • "My little, little child!" cried Bob "My little child!"
    • Fred
      • He had heated himself with rapid walking [...] all in a glow [...] and his breath smoked again
      • God bless it! (Christmas)
      • Cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge
    • Ghost of Christmas Past
      • It was a strange figure - like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man
      • It wore a tunic of the purest white
      • Fresh green holly
      • A bright, clear jet of light
      • Your lip is trembling [...]and what is that upon your cheek
      • Light was burning high and bright
    • Fezziwig
      • Adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself
      • Comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice
      • In came (repetition)
      • Shaking hands with every person individually
    • Belle
      • Another idol has displaced me [..] a golden one
      • Our contract is an old one [...] when it was made you were another man
    • Ghost of Christmas present
      • Jolly giant
      • Who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty's horn
      • Shed its light on Scrooge
      • Simple deep green robe [...] white fur
      • Ample folds of the garment
      • Holly wreath
      • Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it [...] eaten up with rust
      • Sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch [...] because it needs it most
    • Mrs Cratchit
      • Dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons
      • Why, bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!
      • Kissing her a dozen times
      • Well! Never mind so long as you are come
      • An odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Scrooge
      • The mother [...] Cratchit's wife
      • Good wife (repetition)
    • Tiny Tim
      • Tiny tim upon his shoulder
      • He bore a little crutch, and his limbs supported by an iron frame
      • As good as gold [...] and better
      • Feebly cried Hurrah!
    • The Cratchits
      • Fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession
      • Eked out
      • With the pudding, like a speckled cannonball
      • A small pudding for a large family
      • Display of glass
      • The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner
      • Poor Tiny Tim
      • Kissed (repetition)
    • Ignorance and Want
      • They were a boy and a girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish
      • Like that of age had pinched and twisted them
      • They are man's
      • This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware of them both [...] but most of all, beware this boy
      • Doom [...] stretching his hand towards the city
    • Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
      • Behold a solemn phantom, draped and hooded, coming like a mist along the ground towards him
      • Slowly, gravely, silently approached
      • Shrouded in a deep black garment
      • Neither spoke nor moved
      • (Will you not speak to me)
      • The hand was pointed to them
      • The kind hand trembled
      • (Scrooge) clutching at its robe
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