"A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner."
Stave 2
"Another idol has displaced me. A golden one."
" I should like to have given him something, that's all."
"Father is so much kinder than he used to be."
Stave 3
"The boy is ignorance. The girl is want"
"Spirit, tell me if Tiny Tim will live."
"Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention of his name cast a dark
shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes."
Stave 5
"What a delightful boy!" said Scrooge. "It's
a pleasure to talk to him."
"Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all,
and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did
not die, he was a second father. "
"If you please, Not a farthing less. A
great many back-payments are
included in it, I assure you. Will you do
me that favour?"
Stave 4
"I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been
but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope!" "
"it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion
that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one
of pleasure."
"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. The
Spirits of all Three shall strive within me."