Stave 1

• "He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!"
• ‘Hard and sharp as flint.’
• ‘Solitary as an oyster.’
• ‘External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge.’
• ‘He was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled.’ (Fred)
• ‘”Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.’
• “’I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.’”
• ‘”If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.’”
• ‘”I wear the chain I forged in life.”’