stave 2

• • ‘Was it a dream or not?’
• ‘Scrooge… found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor…
• It was a strange figure – like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man.'
• ‘It wore a tunic of the purest white.’
• ‘From the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light.’
• ‘”Are you the spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?” asked Scrooge
• ‘The voice was soft and gentle'
• ‘”Would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?
• • ‘”I am a mortal,” Scrooge remonstrated, “and liable to fall.”
• ‘He was conscious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long forgotten!’
• ‘”Your lip is trembling,” said the Ghost. “And what is that upon your cheek?”
• ‘”The school is not quite deserted… A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still.”’ - ‘
• ‘A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire
• • ‘Scrooge… wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.’
• ‘”There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something: that’s all.”
• ‘A little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her ‘dear, dear brother.’’
• ‘”Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that home’s like Heaven!’
• ‘He called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice.’ (Fezziwig)
• ‘”He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make out service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.”’ (Scrooge talking about Fezziwig)
• ‘”Another idol has displaced me.”
• ‘”You fear the world too much.”’
• ‘”Our contract is an old one.”’
• ‘He seized the extinguisher-cap, and by sudden action pressed it down upon its head.’
• ‘He could not hide the light: which streamed from under it, in an unbroken flood upon the ground.’