stave 3

• ‘A strange voice called him by his name, and bade him enter.’‘A strange voice called him by his name, and bade him enter.’
• ‘Such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney
• ‘Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry…
• ‘In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch… and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge
• ‘”Come in! and know me better, man
• ‘Its dark brown curls were long and free: free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand
• ‘Girded round its middle was an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it, and the ancient sheath was eaten up with rust.’
• ‘”There are some upon this earth of yours… who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name…”
• ‘Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit’s wife… brave in ribbons.’
• ‘”He hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”
• ‘It was a sufficient dinner for the whole family.’
• “’If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’"
• ‘”What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
• ‘”Mr Scrooge!” said Bob; “I’ll give you Mr Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast
• ‘There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty.’
• ‘”A place where Miners live, who labour in the bowels of the earth,” returned the Spirit. “But, they know me. See!”
• ‘”I am sorry for him; I couldn’t be angry with him if I tried.”’
• ‘They were a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish: but prostrate, too, in their humility.’
• ‘”They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom.