STAVE 1

• 'A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!'
• 'External heat and cold had little influence on him'
• 'The cold within him froze his old features'
• 'Marley was dead to begin with'
• 'Solitary as an oyster'
• ' You're poor enough '

  ' You're rich enough '
• 'I can't afford to make idle people merry'
• 'If they would rather die .... they had better do it and decrease the surplus population'
• 'Mankind was my business"
• ' I wear the chains I forged in life'