A Christmas Carol

• Bob Cratchit "the Clerk's fire was so very much smaller" - maltreated.
• Bob Cratchit "my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week... talking about a Merry Christmas" - stoical.
• Bob Cratchit "the clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded" - impressionable.
• Bob Cratchit "The clerk...went down a slide on Cornhill...twenty times in honour of it being Christmas Eve" - playful.
• Bob Cratchit "Bob had but fifteen 'Bob' a week himself...and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed his four-roomed house!" - deserving.
• Bob Cratchit (Tiny Tim) "Spirit of Tiny Tim, thy childish essence was from God" - revered.
• Bob Cratchit (Tiny Tim) "He hoped the people saw him in Church... to remember upon Christmas Day who made lame beggars walk and blind men see" - Proud and not self pitying.
• Bob Cratchit "Bob's voice was tremulous when he told them this" - emotional.
• Bob Cratchit "My little, little child" - grief-stricken.
• Bob Cratchit "Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he... dreaded that he might be taken from him" - fearful.
• Bob Cratchit "the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against his face" - loved.
• Bob Cratchit "Bob has hugged his daughter to his heart's content" - loving.
• Bob Cratchit "My dear, was Bob's mild answer, Christmas Day!" - calm.
• Bob Cratchit "I'll give you Mr Scrooge the Founder of the Feast!" - grateful.
• Fred "I am sorry for (Scrooge). I couldn't be angry with him if I tried" - patient.
• Fred "What reason have you to be morose, you're rich enough" - quick-witted.
• Fred "a good time, a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time" - values Christmas.
• Fred "If you should happen... to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew... I should like to know him too" - jovial.
• Fred "Merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!" - cheerful.
• Fred "he can't help thinking better of (Christmas) if he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year" - hopeful.
• Fred "I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not" - determined.
• Fred "Let him in! It is a mercy he didn't shake his arm off" - welcoming.
• Fred "I want nothing from you! I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends" - puzzled.
• Fred "His face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled" - lively.
• Fred "Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself" - pitying.
• Fred "Come! Dine with us tomorrow" - hospitable.
• Fred "I have nothing to say against him" - loyal.
• Scrooge "External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge" - cold-hearted.
• Scrooge "...as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary to part" - miserly.
• Scrooge "You may be an indigested bit of beef" - disbelieving.
• Scrooge "There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something" - regretful.
• Scrooge "Tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!" - desperate.
• Scrooge "Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre seen" - fearful.
• Scrooge "I hope to live to be another man from what I was" - reformed.
• Scrooge "Scrooge was better than his word" - transformed.
• Scrooge "I... do it with a thankful heart" - grateful.
• Scrooge "I can't afford to make idle people merry" - uncharitable.
• Scrooge "Another idol has displaced me... A golden one" - avaricious.
• Scrooge "Solitary as an oyster" - anti-social.
• Scrooge "Every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding" - superior.