ACC Stave 1

• ‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!’
• ‘Hard and sharp as flint.’ - Stave 1
• ‘Solitary as an oyster.’ - Stave 1
• ‘The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole.’
• ‘His clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond…was copying letters...’
• ‘his eyes sparkled.’ (Fred)
• ‘”Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.’
• '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.”’
• ‘”No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.’”
• ‘”Mankind was my business.”’
• 'Full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas eves ago.' - Marley's Ghost