Stave 2

• Marley’s ghost bothered him exceedingly
• The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand
• It was a strange figure – like a child, yet not so like a child
• It held a branch of fresh green holly
• from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light
• the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness
• I am mortal…and liable to fall
• hopes and joys long, long forgotten
• Remember it!... I could walk it blindfold
• A solitary child, neglected by his friends
• Scrooge said he knew it and he sobbed
• lonely boy … feeble fire
• (Scrooge) ‘wept to see his poor forgotten self
• in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying
• I wish… but it’s too late now
• Father is so much kinder than he used to be
• Your Nephew… Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind
• The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune
• I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk just now
• Another idol has displaced me… a golden one
• There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty
• You fear the world too much
• I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you
• You are changed
• May you be happy in the life you have chosen!
• Why do you delight to torture me?
• (about Belle’s daughter) ‘been a spring-time in the haggard winter of his life’
• Remove me!... I cannot bear it!... Haunt me no longer
• he could not hide the light which streamed from under it