Quotes

• Stave 1 - description of scrooge

  “he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone … Hard and sharp as flint“
• stave 1

  “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner“
• Stave 2

  “a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be“
• stave 5

  “I will live in the Past the present and the future!“ Scrooge repeated as he scrambled out of bed“
• stave 4

  • “its likely to be a very cheap funeral“ said the same speaker, “for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go“
  • if there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man‘s death“ said Scrooge quite agonised “show that person to me, spirit, I beseech you.“
• Stave 3

  “As good as gold“ said Bob “and better.“
• stave 3

  “Tiny Tim upon his shoulder“