Stave 3

Cards (39)

  • He wished to challenge the spirit on the moment of its appearance
  • This ghostly light
  • A jolly giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing touch
  • You have never seen the like of me before
  • More than eighteen hundred
  • Let me profit by it
  • Jovial and full of glee
  • to any kindly given. to a poor one most ... because it needs it most
  • kind, generous, hearty nature
  • dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons
  • threadbare clothes
  • tiny tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame
  • martha didnt like to see him disappointed if it were only in joke
  • bobs voice was tremulous ... and trembled more when he said that tiny tim was growing strong and hearty
  • dreaded that he might be taken from him
  • i see a vacant seat
  • if these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die
  • if he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
  • ill give you mr scrooge, the founder of the feast
  • on which one drinks the heath of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr Scrooge
  • scrooge was the ogre of the family
  • scrooge to recognize it as his own nephew's
  • nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious a laughter
  • his wealth is of no use to him. he don't do any good with it
  • who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always
  • not much caring what they laughed at so that they laughed at any rate
  • it is good to be children sometimes
  • begged like a boy to be allowed to stay untill the guests departed
  • by poverty, and it was rich
  • my life upon this globe is very briefe
  • it might be a claw for the flesh there is upon it
  • scowling, wolfish
  • where graceful youth should have filled their features ... a stale and shrivelled hand, like that of age , had pinched
  • devils lurked and glared out menacing
  • they are mans
  • this boy is ignorance. this girl is want
  • i see that written which is doom, unless the writing be erased
  • turrning on him for the last time with his own words. Are there no workhouses
  • beheld a solemn phantom, draped and hooded