Stave One

• hard and sharp as flint (Scrooge)
• solitary as an oyster (Scrooge)
• fog came pouring in (Setting)
• he was all in a glow ( nephew)
• his breathe smoked again (nephew)
• "he poked the fire and extinguished the last frail spark for ever" (clerk poking, Scrooge metaphor)
• portly gentlemen (charity collectors)
• "Are there no prisons?" "Are there no workhouses" (Scrooge)
• "I wear the chains I forged in life" (Marley's ghost)
• "Mankind was my business" (Marley)
• "decrease the surplus population" (Scrooge)