Quotes

• Secret and set contained and solitary as an oyster
• Solitary child, neglected by his friends
• External heat and cold had little influence on him
• I will honour Christmas inn my heart
• Like a child; yet not like a child as like an old man
• Purest white
• bright clear jet of light
• Jolly giant
• Marley was dead; to begin with
• Shun the path I tread
• Where anger might have sat, devils lurked
• the spirit answered not, but pointed onwards with his hands
• Are there any workhouses?
• Spirit are they yours? / they are mans
• small cell / one coal
• They were happy, grateful and pleased with one another and contented
• brave with ribbons
• As good as gold
• Heated himself / a glow /eyes sparkled
• Father is so much kinder, than he used to be / Home is like heaven
• Another idol has displaced me/ a golden one
• Called him father
• Covetous old sinner / hard and sharp as flint
• cool, bleak, biting weather
• no fog, no mist / the sky was clear, bright, jovial / golden sunlight
• Organ of benevolence / fat jovial voice
• the joy the gratitude and ecstasy
• Bah! Humbug!
• A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner
• I will give in the past, the present , and the future