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• SCROOGE:

  "Squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner."
• SCROOGE:

  "Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster"
• SCROOGE:

  "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
• SCROOGE:

  "I am as light as a feather, am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy."
• SCROOGE:

  "overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetations' death not life [...] A worthy place!"
• SCROOGE:

  "Why, it's Ali Baba! Scrooge exclaimed in ecstasy."
• SCROOGE:

  "Oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone."
• SCROOGE:

  "Are there no prisons?"
• BOB CRATCHIT:

  His office: "tank" and "dismal little cell"
• SCROOGE & BOB CRATCHIT:

  "fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a Merry Christmas. I'll retire to Bedlam"
• BOB CRATCHIT:

  "ran home [...] as hard as he could pelt."
• BOB CRATCHIT:

  "the clerk's fire was so much smaller that it looked like one coal."
• CRATCHIT FAMILY:

  Celebrated Christmas eating a "goose"
• MRS CRATCHIT:

  "brave in ribbons"
• PETER CRATCHIT:

  "monstrous shirt collar ... in honour of the day"
• CRATCHIT FAMILY:

  "they were not a handsome family, not well dressed [...] but they were happy, grateful, pleased..."
• MARLEY'S GHOST:

  "I wear the chain I forged in life."
• MARLEY'S GHOST:

  "made of cash boxes, keys, padlocks..."
• MARLEY'S GHOST:

  "no rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse."
• MARLEY'S GHOST:

  "mankind was my business"
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:

  "it was a strange figure like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man."
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:

  "its belt... was light one instant, at another time was dark."
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:

  "bright clear jet of light"
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST:

  "softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears."
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT:

  "heaped up on the floor, to form a ... throne ... [made of] turkeys, geese."
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT:

  "an antique scabbard; but no sword ... ancient sheath was eaten up with rust."
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT:

  "their deeds of passion ... ill will, hatred ... in our name"
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT:

  "he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
• IGNORANCE AND WANT:

  "Wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable"
• IGNORANCE AND WANT:

  "a boy and a girl"
• IGNORANCE AND WANT:

  "Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish."
• IGNORANCE AND WANT:

  "state and shrivelled hand like that of age."
• IGNORANCE AND WANT:

  "beware of the boy ... on his brow I see that written which is doom"
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME:

  "The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached."
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME:

  "shrouded in a deep black garment"
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME:

  "The spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand"
• TINY TIM:

  "God bless us, Every one!"
• TINY TIM:

  "My little, little child"
• TINY TIM:

  "he was a cripple... whomade lame beggars walk, and blind men see."
• FRED:

  "Merry Christmas uncle! God save you."