A Christmas Carol: Annotation-Friendly Edition

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It isn't that," said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter self, -- "it isn't that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune." Enjoy your Christmas Bowl too! Merry Christmas! SimanaitisSays will return on December 26, after a brief Holiday Hiatus. ds I'll drink his health for your sake and the day's," said Mrs Cratchit, "not for his. Long life to him! A merry Christmas and a happy New Year! He'll be very merry and very happy, I have no doubt!" A golden one. You fear the world too much. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you Have I not?" 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.’

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There’s another fellow,’ muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: ` my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family , talking about a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam.' . Nor could he think of any one immediately connected with himself, to whom he could apply them This comic portrayal of Scrooge as someone who can not recognise their own death may be amusing however also server as a reminder to readers that their public reputation may not be what you think it is. Plenty of prisons. But under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the unoffending multitude, a few of us are endeavoring 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?"Scrooge glanced about him on the floor, in the expectation of finding himself surrounded by some fifty or sixty fathoms of iron cable: but he could see nothing. like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man Scrooge find this combination unsettling but it may represent his own past The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.

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Hot and Cold – Extensive imagery describes Scrooge as cold because of his cold heart; in contrast, his nephew is described as warm because he is merry and loving. A tremendous family to provide for! Spirit, conduct me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now. To-night, if you have ought to teach me, let me profit by it." Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory. The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night. The colour? Ah, poor Tiny Tim. The death of tiny Tim has bought the family even closer together in their mourning. This in in direct contrast to Scrooge's death in which there in no one there to mourn him.

I will,’ said Scrooge. `But don’t be hard upon me! Don’t be flowery, Jacob! Pray!’ `How it is that I appear before you in a shape that you can see, I may not tell. I have sat invisible beside you many and many a day.’ It held up its chain at arm’s length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again. Whether these creatures faded into mist, or mist enshrouded them, he could not tell. But they and their spirit voices faded together; and the night became as it had been when he walked home. The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance. Scrooge said that he would see him -- yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first.