Scrooge

• Scrooge: 'Darkness is cheap and Scrooge liked it'
• 1. S 1: 'Hard and sharp as flint ... and as Solitary as an oyster'
• 1. S 1: 'Squeezing , wrenching , grasping covetous old sinner'
• 1. S 1: 'No warmth could warm him , nor wintry weather could chill him'
• 1. S 1: 'warned all human sympathy to keep its distance'
• Scrooge 1: 'If they would rather die they better do it and decrease the surplus population'
• Scrooge 1: 'Are there no prisons … Are there no workhouses'
• 1. S 2: 'a solitary child is left there , deserted'
• 1. S 2: 'Why did his cold eyes glisten'
• N - S 2: 'conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand

  thoughts, and hopes, and joys long, long forgotten'
• Scrooge 4: 'I will live in the past , present and future'
• Scrooge 4: 'Oh spirit tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone'
• Scrooge 4: 'I am not the man I was'
• Scrooge 4: 'are these the shadows of things that [will be / may be]'
• Scrooge 5: 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy'
• Scrooge 5: 'No fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring cold'
• Scrooge 5: 'Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, won-der-ful happiness'
• 1. S 5: 'Scrooge regarded every one with a delightful smile'