Stave 2

• ‘It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.
• ‘From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light.’
• ‘He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long forgotten!’
• ‘”The school is not quite deserted… A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”’
• ‘Scrooge… 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.”’
• ‘”Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!’
• ‘”He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make out service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”’ (Scrooge talking about Fezziwig)
• ‘”Another idol has displaced me.”’ (Belle)