Stave 3

• ‘Such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney.’
• ‘Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry…’
• ‘In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch… and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge.’
• ‘They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish: but prostrate, too, in their humility.’
• • ‘”They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom.”’
• ‘”There are some upon this earth of yours… who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name…”
• “’If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’”
• ‘There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty.’