Stave 1

• ‘He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!’
• 'Hard and sharp as flint.’
• ‘Solitary as an oyster.’
• ‘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?”
• "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.”
• 'It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago'
• ‘”No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.’”
• ‘”Mankind was my business.”’