Christmas Carol

“Marley was dead to begin with”

first line

“haunt … pleasantly”

preface

“he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone”

(scrooge) tight

“they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population”

Scrooge and ghost (population)

"Are there no prisons, no workhouses for the poor?"

scrooge (workhouse)

"Bah! Humbug!"

nonsense

"solitary as an oyster"

alone

"another idol has displaced me … a golden one"

belle

"Remove me! … I cannot heat bear it!"

remove

"Haunt me no longer"

haunt

"Spirit, … conduct me where you will"

conduct

"tell me if Tiny Tim will live"

TT

"I see a vacant seat, … in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved"

death of TT

"yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish”

children description

"this boy is ignorance. This girl is want"

boy and girl

"lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know"

lead

"are these the shadows of things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be, only?"

shadows

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present and the Future"

christmas

“merry as a school boy”

merry