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men, referring to his list. ‘Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge, or Mr. Marley?’ ‘Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years,’ Scrooge replied. ‘He died seven years ago, this very night.’ ‘We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,’ said the gentleman, presenting his credentials. It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits. At the ominous word ‘liberality,’ Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back. ‘At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,’ said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ‘it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and Destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.’ ‘Are there no prisons?’ asked Scrooge. ‘Plenty of prisons,’ said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. ‘And the Union workhouses?’ demanded Scrooge. ‘Are they still in operation?’ ‘They are. Still,’ returned the gentleman, ‘I wish I could say they were not.’ ‘The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’ said Scrooge. ‘Both very busy, sir.’ ‘Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,’ said Scrooge. ‘I’m very glad to hear it.’ 10 Sons and Lovers
‘Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,’ returned the gentleman, ‘a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink. and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?’ ‘Nothing!’ Scrooge replied. ‘You wish to be anonymous?’ ‘I wish to be left alone,’ said Scrooge. ‘Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there.’ ‘Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.’ ‘If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides — excuse me — I don’t know that.’ ‘But you might know it,’ observed the gentleman. ‘It’s not my business,’ Scrooge returned. ‘It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!’ Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. Scrooge returned his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him. Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that peo- Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 11
Page 1 and 2: A Christmas Carol By Charles Dicken
Page 3 and 4: Stave 1: Marley’s Ghost M arley w
Page 5 and 6: wind that blew was bitterer than he
Page 7 and 8: you to be merry? What reason have y
Page 9: y Christmas. ‘Good afternoon!’
Page 13 and 14: nose with a touch of such weather a
Page 15 and 16: in the city of London, even includi
Page 17 and 18: pan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in
Page 19 and 20: It was long, and wound about him li
Page 21 and 22: ‘You see this toothpick?’ said
Page 23 and 24: It was a habit with Scrooge, whenev
Page 25 and 26: ‘Thank ‘ee!’ ‘You will be h
Page 27 and 28: had locked it with his own hands, a
Page 29 and 30: he could make out was, that it was
Page 31 and 32: wore a tunic of the purest white, a
Page 33 and 34: hand, was not to be resisted. He ro
Page 35 and 36: hanging in it. It was a large house
Page 37 and 38: ‘but it’s too late now.’ ‘W
Page 39 and 40: time tied on to the top of the chai
Page 41 and 42: cleared away, or couldn’t have cl
Page 43 and 44: dance; advance and retire, both han
Page 45 and 46: in a mourning-dress: in whose eyes
Page 47 and 48: ‘You may — the memory of what i
Page 49 and 50: a fictitious turkey, glued on a woo
Page 51 and 52: Stave 3: The Second of the Three Sp
Page 53 and 54: and ceiling were so hung with livin
Page 55 and 56: the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour
Page 57 and 58: such glimpses. It was not alone tha
Page 59 and 60: ‘You would deprive them of their
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‘Here’s Martha, mother.’ crie
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gravy (ready beforehand in a little
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and at Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood
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shadow on the party, which was not
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efore, dotting the dusky street wit
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low his breath to his companion of
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‘Oh, I have.’ said Scrooge’s
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hands, without resorting to the sex
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posed, elicited from him that he wa
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‘To-night.’ cried Scrooge. ‘T
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Stave 4: The Last of the Spirits T
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groups, and looked at their watches
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purpose, he set himself to consider
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had entered first. ‘Let the laund
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other sixpence, if I was to be boil
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He recoiled in terror, for the scen
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tried, but in vain, to work with he
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‘The colour hurts my eyes,’ she
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‘Heartily sorry,’ he said,’ f
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worthy place. Walled in by houses;
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Stave 5: The End of It Y es! and th
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oy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps h
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the end of his nose off, he would h
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